chemistry
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A new method of measuring human exposure to the potentially toxic chemical calls into question regulatory policy.
MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction.
Researchers discovered a mysterious quantum effect that breaks a 60-year-old physics theorem.
Doctors put a human into suspended animation for the first time ever.
Scientists speculate that if life were to have spontaneously developed on Earth, the first thing there would need to be are vesicles.
Rather than scrubbing the emissions from fossil fuel plants, a new analysis suggests we should simply replace those power plants with renewable alternatives.
Scientists find common chemicals can negatively impact pregnant women.
Some pesticides are about as toxic as table salt.
The synthetic chemicals — called PFAS — never break down naturally.
New research reveals a major shift in what pressures life used to face.
Harvard engineers make a breakthrough polarization camera.
Its scarcity could impact scientific research as well as the high-tech industry.
The periodic table was a lot simpler at the beginning of the universe.
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It’s been difficult to research the illicit drugs, but we’re slowly building a better understanding of their potential.
No one should be drinking more than 8oz. a day. Here’s why.
The answer is surprisingly simple, if cataclysmic.
All life as we know it relies on carbon and water. But researchers speculate this doesn’t have to be the case.
Two new studies might have identified whether or not patients will respond to chemotherapy.
An innovation may lead to lifelike evolving machines.
It’s often said that every element was made in a star, but there’s more to it than that.
Doctors may be able to painlessly reshape cartilage with the technique.
Artistic depictions of the atom have deceived us all.
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The blood of horseshoe crabs is harvested on a massive scale in order to retrieve a cell critical to medical research. However, recent innovations might make this practice obsolete.
The hard part was keeping the list down to ten.
A parlor-trick mystery explained at last.
“Dinner and drinks” may take on a new, more provocative meaning.