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One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, matter can escape the center of the Earth.
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
This biologist built a living robot from frog cells — and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine.
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AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
Scientists may have detected the somewhat smelly chemical dimethyl sulfide on a planet 120 light-years from Earth.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
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Oxygen isn't strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.
A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
Claims circulating on the Internet — some from dentists' websites — suggest toothpaste isn't necessary for dental health. Is that true?
In the beginning, genes weren't needed.
McDermitt Caldera, the site of an ancient volcanic eruption, straddles the border of Oregon and Nevada.
Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.
Chemists could replace bubbling flasks with tumbling ball mills.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
Experiments on suborbital rockets are revealing how to make a better iron furnace.
Capsaicin is already used to treat nerve pain. Early research hints it could do more.
We don’t need to think about what life is made of but rather what it does.
The flavor is "simultaneously fascinating and... abusive."
The best answer we have is, "Life is matter with intentionality."
Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
Particle physicists use gigantic accelerators to investigate the infinitesimal.
There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.
Although early Earth was a molten hellscape, once it cooled, life arose almost immediately. That original chain of life remains unbroken.
Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.