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Ancient organic chemistry.

One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.

The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.

Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.

It's not just the language of love.

Oxygen isn't strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.

Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.

In the beginning, genes weren't needed.

The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.

Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.

There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.

A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.

The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.

For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?

Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.

A two-dimensional material made entirely of carbon called graphene won the Nobel Prize in 2010. Graphyne might be even better.

Your mentors made time for you. Now, go and make time for others.

Beer's flavor begins to change as soon as it is packaged. Are cans or bottles better at preserving flavor?

Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.

∆G = ∆H - T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.

On Earth, carbon can form millions of compounds, while silicon is largely stuck inside rocks. But elsewhere, silicon could form the basis of life.

Particle physicists use gigantic accelerators to investigate the infinitesimal.

Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.

The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the building blocks of life could form in the primordial soup. But it overlooked one key variable.

Asymmetric organocatalysis is an environmentally friendly way of accelerating chemical reactions and creating specific types of molecules.

Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.