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chemistry

Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic

Technology

Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic

A method for quickly coating objects in a thin, environmentally safe mother-of-pearl-like film could protect food or electronics from the elements

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Animation showing ozone-harming chemicals moving from low to high latitudes

Earth

Ozone layer recovery will be delayed by chemical leaks

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Two footballers

Physics

Footballers move around pitch like chaotic particles in a fluid

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Diagram of a buckyball

Space

Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight

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Glasses of whisky

Technology

Artificial whisky taster has the palate of a connoisseur

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Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

Physics

Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

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Mars strata

Life

Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake

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Health

Your mind as well as your senses deserves a place at mealtimes

Leader

Rubisco

Life

Resurrected gene allows time travel to an Earth before oxygen

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E. coli bacteria

Life

Synthetic genes can make weird new proteins that actually work

Throwing amino acids together has made a handful of proteins that help bacteria lacking certain enzymes survive, giving us a new route to useful molecules

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Life

We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules

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Life

New era of alchemy: Copying nature’s chemistry in a jiffy

Features

Physics

Three-atom molecule cooled to near absolute zero for first time

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Humans

Up and atom: The fights to put people into the periodic table

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