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Earth

Ozone layer recovery will be delayed by chemical leaks

Leaks of a common chemical used in paints and for manufacturing are harming the ozone layer and could delay recovery of the ozone hole until 2095

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Two footballers

Physics

Footballers move around pitch like chaotic particles in a fluid

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Diagram of a buckyball

Space

Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight

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Glasses of whisky

Technology

Artificial whisky taster has the palate of a connoisseur

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Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

Physics

Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

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Mars strata

Life

Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake

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cooking

Health

Your mind as well as your senses deserves a place at mealtimes

Leader

Rubisco

Life

Resurrected gene allows time travel to an Earth before oxygen

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E. coli bacteria

Life

Synthetic genes can make weird new proteins that actually work

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Surface of Europa

Life

We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules

One chemist has a new strategy to scan for life on other worlds: bypass organic chemistry in favour of any molecules too complicated to form spontaneously

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Life

New era of alchemy: Copying nature’s chemistry in a jiffy

Features

Physics

Three-atom molecule cooled to near absolute zero for first time

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Humans

Up and atom: The fights to put people into the periodic table

Features

Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table

Features