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Fluorescent test strip detects deadly phosgene gas
Portable test checks for industrial gas leaks and chemical attacks
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A light in shining armour
Spectroscopic technique illuminates blueing process in a 16th century gauntlet
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Algorithm deliberately entangles MOFs
Tool tests for plausible crystal structure combinations
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Molecular movie exposes perovskite solar cell’s inner workings
Electron camera may help uncover why perovskites are efficient light-harvesters
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Small data unpicks complex interactions
Machine learning models complex physical systems with sparse datasets
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Elemental imaging could authenticate Ming brushstrokes
New insight into royal painting techniques
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Automated exploration of chemical space finds two new reactions
Synthetic chemists hit on undiscovered reactions by processing data from a high throughput screen of tens of thousands of potential products
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‘New era’ of designer proteins for medicines and materials
Platform computed thousands of stable designs for short proteins, up from two previous designs
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Humans come out second best against efficient robot chemist
Chemists aren’t out of a job but the robot did perform well when it came to discovering and creating giant self-assembling structures
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Computer plastics recycled into toys
Brominated flame retardants found in toys and cup lids
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Record-breaking laser technique detects gas at parts per quadrillion
Three different resonances enable photoacoustic gas detection with unprecedented accuracy
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DDT surprises with new, overlooked form of the pesticide
Highly controversial pesticide has a second more lethal crystal form missed for almost 80 years
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New ion trap method sets its sights on Mars
Technique that extends capabilities of existing instruments without physically modifying them could benefit origin-of-life studies on Mars
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Neural network predicts bond energies like a pro
New computational method learns how to estimate bond energies as well as a trained synthetic chemist
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Bismuth drug structure solved
After over three centuries of mystery, the structure of bismuth subgallate has finally been uncovered
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Purest silicon sphere ever created will redefine the kilogram
Largest impurity is copper taking the place of one silicon atom in every three billion
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DNA helix has chiral water ‘spine’
Spectroscopy reveals how water molecules form a chiral superstructure in DNA’s minor groove
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Scientists get charged up over titanium dioxide
Groups debate usefulness of conventional +4 titanium oxidation state compared to +2.5 charge state
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Anion confounds expectations with its electron-loving nature
A boron cluster is the first example of a dipole-distinguishing electrophilic anion