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chemistry

What is the body made of?

Question

What is the body made of?

The human body contains around 20 different elements, mostly made inside ancient stars.
Marie Paulze Lavoisier with her husband Antoine

People in Science

Marie Paulze Lavoisier

Shelves full of Walkers crisps

Chemistry

Crisp packets made of a new material could be much easier to recycle

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Antoine Lavoisier

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Antoine Lavoisier

Lise Meitner

People in Science

Lise Meitner

man sniffing

Life

What makes a good smell? Inside a multibillion dollar aromatic mystery

Features

It would take huge amounts of clean energy to make the chemicals industry go green

Environment

Greening the chemical industry requires massive amount of renewables

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Hell's Gate in New Zealand is being used as an open-air laboratory

Life

51¶¯Âþs dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate life’s origins

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chemical plant

Chemistry

Clever chemistry could make fertiliser with a smaller carbon footprint

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NGC 7027 nebula

Space

We’ve found the first type of molecule to form after the big bang

The first atoms fused into molecules about 400,000 years after the big bang, and now we’ve seen signs of those earliest types of molecule in a distant nebula

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Chemistry

A gel made from urea has molecules that resemble friendship bracelets

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Physics

The story of the most beautiful table in science is worth celebrating

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Physics

Here's my favourite element – what's yours?

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Physics

Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe

Features

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