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Ice crystals
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Scientists make "squarest" ice crystals ever You won't find ice cubes like this in your freezer. An international team of scientists has set a new record for creating ice crystals that have a near-perfect cubic arrangement of water molecules - a form of ice that may exist in the coldest high-altitud...
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Pesticides
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Large-scale study 'shows neonic pesticides harm bees' The most extensive study to date on neonicotinoid pesticides concludes that they harm both honeybees and wild bees. Researchers said that exposure to the chemicals left honeybee hives less likely to survive over winter, while bumblebees an...
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Carbon Dioxide Experiment
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Researchers Find a Surprise Just Beneath the Surface in Carbon Dioxide Experiment While using X-rays to study the early stages of a chemical process that can reformulate carbon dioxide into more useful compounds, including liquid fuels, researchers were surprised when the experiment taught th...
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Xenon
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Earth's missing xenon could be hiding in quartz What's happened to the Earth's missing xenon? For decades scientists have known that the abundance of xenon is curiously lower than predicted from comparisons with the other noble gases. Yet they have been unable to determine why. Now chemists in Can...
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Baddeleyite
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Baddeleyite is a rare zirconium oxide mineral (ZrO2 or zirconia), occurring in a variety of monoclinic prismatic crystal forms. It is transparent to translucent, has high indices of refraction, and ranges from colorless to yellow, green, and dark brown. Read more
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Methane hydrates
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China claims breakthrough in mining 'flammable ice' China has for the first time extracted gas from an ice-like substance under the South China Sea considered key to future global energy supply. Chinese authorities have described the success as a major breakthrough. Methane hydrates, also call...
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Super-heavy elements
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The World's most difficult chemical experiment: The struggle to discover the secret of super-heavy elements In order to find the chemical properties of super-heavy elements, chemists must conduct one of the world's most demanding chemical experiments in a matter of seconds. In this effort, the...
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Graphene
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Scientists cook up material 200 times stronger than steel out of soybean oil An everyday cooking oil has been used to make graphene in a lab - a development scientists said could significantly reduce the cost and complexity of making the super-substance on a commercial scale. Graphene, which is mad...
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Graphite
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Large graphite deposit found in northeast China A large high-quality graphite deposit has been discovered in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, local authorities said Thursday. Initial surveys show that deposit, located in Mudanjiang city, has reserves of more than 35 million tonnes o...
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Metallic hydrogen
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Claim made for hydrogen 'wonder material' Scientists in the US say they have at last managed to turn hydrogen into a state where it behaves like a metal. If that is true - and it is a controversial claim - it fulfils a more than 80-year quest to produce what many have said would be a wonder material. Theory...
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DNA
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Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbour a big secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. There's one problem: We don't know what it is. Although individual laboratory animals appear to live happily when these genetic ciphers are deleted, these snippets have...
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Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world's smallest machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa will share the 8m kronor (£727,000) prize for the design and synthesis of machines on a molecular scale. Read more
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Lithium-air battery
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New lithium-air battery design shows promise A new design for lithium-air batteries overcomes several big hurdles that have stood in the way of this concept. Lithium-air cells can store energy much more densely than today's lithium-ion batteries, making them particularly promising for electr...
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Strontium ratios
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New Study Highlights Valuable Tool for Studying Living and Extinct Animals University of Cincinnati scientists are reporting a significant finding that could open up entirely new explorations in the fields of ecology and paleoecology. A mathematical analytical tool that was designed to predi...
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Batteries
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A new polymer jelly could be the next big step forward for lithium batteries. The jelly replaces the volatile and hazardous liquid electrolyte currently used in most lithium batteries. Researchers from the University of Leeds hope their development leads to smaller, cheaper and safer gadgets. [...
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