Chemistry

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  1. Earth

    Let’s learn about the carbon cycle

    The total amount of carbon on Earth doesn’t change. But what form those carbon atoms take is constantly changing.

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  2. Environment

    New water treatment process removes pollutants most now don’t

    The two-step water treatment process could cut not only excreted drugs flowing into waterways but also some nutrients that feed harmful algal blooms.

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  3. Chemistry

    Scientists Say: Nucleosynthesis

    For this nuclei-forging cosmic process, the Big Bang was just a way to get started.

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  4. Artificial Intelligence

    AI-designed proteins target toxins in deadly snake venom

    The current way to produce antivenoms is outdated. In lab tests, AI-designed proteins could save mice from a lethal dose of snake toxin.

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  5. Chemistry

    Scientists Say: Absorb and Adsorb

    These words sound and look a lot alike. But crucial differences lie in how they soak up that spill.

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  6. Chemistry

    Some bacteria in wastewater can break down a common plastic

    These microbes can break the carbon bonds that make PET plastics so hard to degrade. This type of plastic makes up almost one-third of plastic waste.

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  7. Tech

    This teen engineer’s device sniffs out common food allergens

    Inspired by his own severe food allergies, Thermo Fisher JIC finalist Samvith Mahadevan built a device to protect people from allergen exposure.

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  8. Chemistry

    Let’s learn about chocolate

    Humans have been making chocolate for millennia. Now scientists are investigating how to make this tasty treat more abundant and nutritious.

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  9. Chemistry

    Behold the world’s thinnest pasta

    Made from white flour and formic acid, the nanofibers average just 370 nanometers across. That’s two-hundredths the thickness of a human hair.

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