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ResearchMetallic hydrogen reveals itself under mounting pressure
Robust data help close in on prized room temperature superconductor
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Aircraft wings could be assembled cheaply and easily using nanotubes
Technique would eliminate the need for pressure vessels the size of a building
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Four chemical classes cost US public 270 million IQ points over 15 years
Flame retardants and pesticides linked to over a million intellectual disability cases between 2001 and 2016
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Water treatment byproducts linked to thousands of bladder cancers in Europe
Call for countries to do more to drive down levels of trihalomethanes produced during disinfection
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Sugars designed to disrupt bacterial cell wall biosynthesis
Rare monosaccharides explore concept for new narrow-spectrum antibiotics
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Computer says no to membrane-bound life on Titan
Scientists quash inside–out cell membrane theory but don’t completely rule out possibility of life on cryogenic liquid hydrocarbon worlds
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First benzene-mimicking molecule made entirely from palladium
Palladium hexagon is a rare example of all-metal aromatic nanocluster
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Yo-yo crystals are a new, rare kind of chiral porous material
Highly unusual structures possess chirality on molecular and macroscopic scales
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Fungal enzyme given catalytic role inside lithium–air battery
Metalloenzyme changes its structure in harmony with the pH of the battery, promoting oxygen reduction and evolution as required
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Crystals reveal the site of the world’s oldest meteorite strike
Mineral chemistry suggests the massive impact 2.3 billion years ago could have made our entire planet much warmer
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Largest molecular wheel ever made pushes limits of aromaticity rules
Giant, 162 π-electron aromatic ring shows that we haven’t reached the upper limit of Hückel’s rule yet
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CFCs responsible for half of Arctic sea-ice loss
Halogenated compounds responsible for one third of global warming in the late 20th century
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Brake dust damages lungs as much as diesel exhaust fumes
Landmark study highlights a new avenue for air pollution research
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Rhenium plays starring role in bond movie
Controllable energy input from transmission electron microscope captures atoms dissociating and recombining
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Synthetic strategy exploits fluxional nitrogen to deliver three chiral centres for the price of one
Innovative method amplifies chirality and complexity in medicinally relevant cyclic hydrazines
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Car exhaust fumes could be used to clean up the recovery of metals
Process could make carbon capture cheaper by providing a use for trapped CO2
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Electrolyser selectively consumes carbon dioxide in unpurified flue gas
Method tackles kinetic and thermodynamic hurdles
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‘Living bricks’ that can reproduce could cut construction’s carbon footprint
Bacterial biomineralisation harnessed to create building material from sand
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Entropy measurements can gauge health of lithium-ion batteries
Non-destructive technique for battery diagnostics
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‘Inside-out’ chirality discovered by chance could have been missed in many molecules
A structure assignment odyssey finds a natural product with a type of isomerism never before seen in small molecules
