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chemistry

Potassium reacting violently in water

Physics

Watch a classic chemistry lab explosion tamed to run in slow-mo

Remember seeing sodium or potassium catching fire and exploding in chemistry lessons? Now watch a new version run slow enough for you to see every detail

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Artists impression of superatoms

Physics

First superatom molecules pave way for new breed of electronics

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A landscape with a distant person looking up at the night sky where the Milky Way is visible

Space

First mirror-image molecule found in interstellar space

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the power station in iceland where the project is being carried out.

Earth

CO2 injected deep underground turns to rock – and stays there

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Personal silhouetted against big display of periodic table

Physics

Four new element names to be added to the periodic table

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A person noses a glass of white wine

Life

Synthetic wine made without grapes claims to mimic fine vintages

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Abstract picture of ice crystals

Life

Missing building block of life could be made on ice in space

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hydrophobic water droplet

Physics

Nano coating lets you mould and slice liquid just like Play-Doh

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Periodic Tales: all the elements of a splendid failure

Physics

Periodic Tales: all the elements of a splendid failure

CultureLab

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

Earth

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

Elements are transformed under the huge pressures far underground and within stars. Harnessing this extreme chemistry could yield astonishing new technologies

Features

Technology

Alchemy machine: Conjuring new drugs at the click of a mouse

Features

Earth

Elemental risk: Securing the raw stuff of modern life

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Life

Microscopes that see the impossible win chemistry Nobel

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Physics

Einstein makes an appearance in superheavy chemistry

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