Chemistry

  1. Earth

    Scientists find an easier way to trap carbon dioxide in rock

    Scientists have found a much faster and easier way to trap CO2 in minerals. If they can scale it up, it might one day help to slow climate change.

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  2. Earth

    Explainer: CO2 and other greenhouse gases

    Carbon dioxide is just one of several chemicals that contribute to the greenhouse effect. Nitrous oxide, methane and CFCs are other big contributors.

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  3. Chemistry

    Scientists Say: Peptide

    Peptides are short chains made of smaller molecules called amino acids. These chains can form proteins, and they can also do work on their own.

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  4. Earth

    Rare blue diamonds form deep, deep, deep inside Earth

    The recipe for rare blue diamonds may include boron, seawater and massive rock collisions.

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  5. Animals

    Here’s how a clam can hide within a rock

    Old boring clam research has been upended after 82 years.

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  6. Chemistry

    ‘Thirdhand’ smoke can hitchhike to non-smoking sites

    Harmful “thirdhand” smoke — the type that attaches to surfaces — can hitch a ride on airborne particles or clothes and travel into non-smoking buildings.

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  7. Environment

    Analyze This: Beauty products are big sources of urban air pollution

    In cities, a larger share of urban air pollution comes from the use of bath products, cleansers and more than does the burning of fossil fuels.

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  8. Microbes

    Nom, nom! These bacteria eat antibiotics for lunch

    Some soil microbes don’t just break down antibiotics, they can eat them too. Scientists have found one way they do it.

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  9. Plants

    Ouch! Lemons and other plants can cause a special sunburn

    These are among a host of plants (many found in the refrigerator vegetable drawer) that produce chemicals that will kill skin cells when activated by sunlight. The result can be a serious, localized sunburn — sometimes with blistering.

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  10. Tech

    Electronic noses might replace search-and-rescue dogs

    A new type of sensor can sniff out scents that people emit. That might one day help rescuers find people buried under collapsed buildings.

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  11. Chemistry

    Diamonds and more suggest unusual origins for asteroids

    Inside a meteorite, scientists found sulfur and iron wrapped in tiny diamonds. Those gems hint the rock formed inside a long-lost planet.

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  12. Materials Science

    This plastic can be recycled over and over and over

    A new kind of plastic is fully recyclable: Unlike current plastics, it breaks down into the exact same molecules from which it was made.

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