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Chili Pepper Compound Is Spicing Up Solar Cell Performance

Capsaicin, the hot molecule from chilli peppers improves the efficiency and stability of perovskite ...

13 Jan 2021
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Researchers Discovered A New State Of Matter: Liquid Glass

Researchers have discovered a new state of matter, liquid glass, with previously unknown structural ...

06 Jan 2021
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Researchers Discovered A New State Of Matter: Liquid Glass

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New Evidence Supports Theory That Life On Earth Originated As RNA-DNA Mix

Researchers suggest that RNA and DNA originated together from similar chemical reactions. These resu...

29 Dec 2020
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New Evidence Supports Theory That Life On Earth Originated As RNA-DNA Mix

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Artificial Intelligence Solves Schrödinger Equation For Molecules

New AI approach to the Schrödinger Equation Provides an almost exact solution for arbitrary molecule...

23 Dec 2020
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Artificial Intelligence Solves Schrödinger Equation For Molecules

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Periodic Table: Scientists Propose New Way Of Ordering The Elements

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01 Dec 2020
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Periodic Table: Scientists Propose New Way Of Ordering The Elements

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Algae Can Be Made To Photosynthesize Hydrogen In Step Towards Clean Fuel

Packed tight into droplets and deprived of oxygen some algal cells photosynthesize hydrogen, potenti...

27 Nov 2020
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Algae Can Be Made To Photosynthesize Hydrogen In Step Towards Clean Fuel

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Polar Explorer's Final Hours Revealed After Researchers Notice Black Spot In His Diary

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have analyzed a black spot on explorer Jørgens B...

25 Nov 2020
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Polar Explorer's Final Hours Revealed After Researchers Notice Black Spot In His Diary

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Russian Researchers Discover New Peculiar Mineral Inside A Volcano

New mineral discovered in a volcano...

19 Nov 2020
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Russian Researchers Discover New Peculiar Mineral Inside A Volcano

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Revolutionary Microscopy Technique Images Atoms Within A Protein For The First Time

Individual atoms mapped using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), showing a reconstructed density of...

26 Oct 2020
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Revolutionary Microscopy Technique Images Atoms Within A Protein For The First Time

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Pioneering CRISPR Genome Editing Technique Wins 2020 Nobel Chemistry Prize

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for t...

07 Oct 2020
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Pioneering CRISPR Genome Editing Technique Wins 2020 Nobel Chemistry Prize

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Breaking: Winners Of The 2020 Nobel Prize In Chemistry Announced

The Winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry have been announced...

07 Oct 2020
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Breaking: Winners Of The 2020 Nobel Prize In Chemistry Announced

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Chromium Steel Was Invented In 11th-Century Persia, Not 19th-Century Europe

The advantages of adding chromium to steel was thought to be a Eurpean invention of the 19th Century...

23 Sep 2020
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Chromium Steel Was Invented In 11th-Century Persia, Not 19th-Century Europe

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YouTuber Reenacts Viral 'Coke-Mentos' Challenge With 10,000 Liters Of Soda

A Youtuber subbed Mentos for an enormous quantity of baking powder and created possibly the world's ...

25 Aug 2020
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YouTuber Reenacts Viral "Coke-Mentos" Challenge With 10,000 Liters Of Soda

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Might The Humble House Brick Be The Battery Of The Future?

Hematite-containing house bricks can be turned into supercapacitors capable of storing electric char...

11 Aug 2020
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Chemists Just Created The Brightest Ever Fluorescent Light And It's Dazzling

Using a new class of materials chemists just created the brightest known fluorescent material in exi...

06 Aug 2020
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Chemists Just Created The Brightest Ever Fluorescent Light And It's Dazzling

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Metal-Eating Bacteria Discovered By Accident Over A Century After First Predicted

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16 Jul 2020
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Metal-Eating Bacteria Discovered By Accident Over A Century After First Predicted

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Hormones Make Bacteria Turn Their Chemical Weapons Over To Us

Bacteria have a vast array of molecules they use to fight off rivals, but do not produce most of the...

26 Jun 2020
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Hormones Make Bacteria Turn Their Chemical Weapons Over To Us

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Discovery of Black Nitrogen Resolves A Longstanding Chemical Anomaly

Black nitrogen, which resembles graphene and black phosphorus has been created but requires extreme ...

03 Jun 2020
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Discovery of Black Nitrogen Resolves A Longstanding Chemical Anomaly

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World’s Brightest X-Ray Source Sheds Light On How To Preserve Munch's The Scream

Using X-ray beams from the European Synchrotron in Grenoble, France, an international team of scient...

19 May 2020
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World’s Brightest X-Ray Source Sheds Light On How To Preserve Munch's The Scream

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One Of The Simplest Chemical Reactions Isn't Simple At All

Quantum interference has been observed in an apparently simple reaction where a a hydrogen atom repl...

18 May 2020
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