Physics
Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives
Mastering materials that have never been made before could deliver blasts big enough to shoot rockets to Mars
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Environment
Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic
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Earth
Ozone layer recovery will be delayed by chemical leaks
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Physics
Footballers move around pitch like chaotic particles in a fluid
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Space
Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight
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Technology
Artificial whisky taster has the palate of a connoisseur
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Physics
Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles
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Life
Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake
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Health
Your mind as well as your senses deserves a place at mealtimes
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Life
Resurrected gene allows time travel to an Earth before oxygen
Researchers have rebuilt the gene coding for an ancient form of the photosynthesis enzyme rubisco, which should tell us how life coped with oxygen-poor air
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Life
Synthetic genes can make weird new proteins that actually work
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Life
We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules
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Life
New era of alchemy: Copying nature’s chemistry in a jiffy
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Physics
Three-atom molecule cooled to near absolute zero for first time
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