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Researchers Create Early Universe Matter
Results could help theorists better understand how the universe’s original quark gluon plasma cooled over milliseconds, giving birth to the first atoms in existence. (read more)
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Glycine: Cheap, Readily Available Energy. But From Where?
Researchers generate electricity from low-cost biomaterial (read more)
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Alchemical Ponderings – Where Exactly Does Gold Come From?
An international group of scientists reveals the mystery about the origin of gold (read more)
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Good News: We Can Terraform Mars. Bad News: It’ll Stink
A mission to Mars could make its own oxygen thanks to plasma technology (read more)
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Desalination: Cleaner, Better Ways to Turn Deserts Green
MIT researchers tackle what happens when the river runs dry (read more)
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Within a Watery Moon: New Analysis of Lunar Interior
Scientists spy new evidence of water in the moon’s interior (read more)
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Hard, hard, hard… chewy: Glassy Carbon
New form of carbon that’s hard as a rock, yet elastic, like rubber (read more)
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Eat Yourself Sozzled: Tracking the Alcohol in Red Wine Sauce
Can you get intoxicated by pouring beer or wine into your sauce or stew? New research provides the answer (read more)
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Did You Know Sydney Harbour’s Dirty Secret?
Beautiful but burpy: Sydney Harbour’s toxic emissions are equivalent to 200 cars on the roads (read more)
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Tracking the Ripples in the Cosmic Web
A team of astronomers has made the first measurements of small-scale ripples in primeval hydrogen gas using rare double quasars (read more)
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But Can it Catch? Chemical Computer Recognises a Sphere
The prototype of a chemical computer detects a sphere (read more)
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Strong, but Itchy. Armourers Update the Hairshirt for 2017
Strength of hair inspires new materials for body armor (read more)
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Bustin’ Bad Cholesterol With Red Cabbage
Red cabbage microgreens lower ‘bad’ cholesterol in animal study (read more)
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Born Slippy: The Freaky Chemistry of the Pacific Spiny Dogfish Shark
How sharks recycle toxic ammonia to keep their skin moist (read more)
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Life on Moors? Searching for Martians in a Yorkshire Saltmine
Yorkshire Salt Mine Could Help Shed Light on Martian Life (read more)
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Banging Rocks to find Life on Mars
Seismic activity on Mars may produce enough hydrogen to support life (read more)
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The Key to Circadian Sunflower Salutations
Plant biologists discover how sunflowers use internal circadian timing to follow the sun (read more)
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Superefficient Cubic GaN LEDs Get the Green Light
New method for making green LEDs enhances their efficiency and brightness (read more)
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Easier, Faster, Cheaper Carbon Nanotubes. At LAST!
A straightforward route for engineering the properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes (read more)
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Put the Kettle On, We’re off for a Drive. Efficient Hydrogen Production
Efficient hydrogen production made easy (read more)
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Old Dog, New Trick, No Thanks? How Declining Dopamine Levels Affect Decision Making
Brain chemistry may explain why older people take fewer risks (read more)
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But How Do You Get the Lid Off? Mesoglue Revolutionises Nano-Stickiness
A glue that binds metal to metal to glass to you-name-it, sets at room temperature, and requires little pressure to seal (read more)
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Sunshine on a Rainy Day : Splitting Water Molecules for Clean Energy
Rice University researchers demo solar water-splitting technology (read more)
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Cleaners that Kill
Imagine if, in an effort to clean the air more efficiently, you were involuntarily introducing chemicals more dangerous than the ones you were trying to scrub. (read more)
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Oxygen Before Life Existed. How?
Oxygen can be formed in one step by using a high energy vacuum ultraviolet laser to excite carbon dioxide (read more)