This week, we discuss reflections from this year’s AAAS annual meeting and the latest advances in plasma chemistry with Rebecca Trager and Mason Wakley.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting recently, bringing scientists, researchers and policymakers together from over 65 different countries. The event kicked off on the heels of the recent minibus spending package announcement, as well as the rescinding of the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, setting a backdrop for many of the conversations that took place that weekend.
And, last week’s feature focused on plasma, the elusive fourth state of matter. Although it makes up 99.9% of the visible universe, we don’t really come across it often here on Earth except in flashes of lightning, in the shimmering colours of auroras, or perhaps in those nostalgic plasma globes that lit up bedrooms in the 80s and 90s. But behind the scenes, plasma is being used across a wide variety of scientific disciplines to push chemistry’s boundaries.
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