All The crucible articles
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Heated crystals jump to enantiomeric separation
Chiral asparagine monohydrate crystals can segregate by handedness – if you arrange them carefully first
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An unprecedented supramolecular structure brings new complexities to life
The transcription factor FOXP3’s interactions with DNA present more evidence of the importance of disorder
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Atmospheres conducive to life
Researchers propose a new biosignature that could hint at habitable exoplanets
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Searching for new physics using ultracold molecules
‘Clock transitions’ could make it possible to discover if a flaw in the Standard Model exists – without the need for high-energy particle colliders
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Moving beyond protein structure
Efforts to understand how intrinsically disordered regions interact have produced a variety of answers
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Why Roman concrete is still stronger than RAAC (and other modern concretes)
Researchers are searching for ways to replicate the self-healing properties of the ancient material
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Shape is not enough to distinguish life from abiotic systems
No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known
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Can life exist outside of the habitable zone?
Speculation about conditions on Venus raises questions about our existing definitions
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How van der Waals first linked liquids and gases
150 years ago, a doctoral thesis changed our understanding of matter
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The long and short of telomere rejuvenation
Telomerase is unlikely to be a straightforward elixir of youth
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Interpreting the impact of AI large language models on chemistry
LLMs may outperform Alphafold, but currently struggle to identify simple chemical structures
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Human genome editing in perspective
Ethical, cultural and safety considerations are high priorities for researchers
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New phase of amorphous ice formed by ball milling
Medium-density amorphous ice has a structure and density similar to liquid water
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Protein filaments allow ‘diary’ of cell events to be read
Expression recording islands show when and where cells responded
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Exploring AlphaFold’s knowledge of energy landscapes
The algorithm needs a little help to find the global energy minimum
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Quantum computing has its limits
Error-prone qubits mean quantum systems do not yet surpass classical methods
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A promising breakthrough in liquid condensate compartmentalisation
Tears are RNA solvent droplets that could help engineer new functions into bacteria
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Cracking codons
Understanding how chemistry links RNA triplets to the properties of amino acids