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While Boyce’s crystal may be the largest single crystal of copper sulfate, students at the Kurfrüst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium in Germany hold the record for overall size. Their polymorphic crystal reached a ...

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Without 2009 ruling emissions regulations on everything from cars and power stations to blast furnaces could collapse ...

A strand of RNA just 45 nucleotides long has been discovered to perform two key reactions required for self-replication. The ...

Athletes excluded for first time for materials doping with 'forever chemicals' since the prohibition took effect three years ...

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Scientists are using non-thermal plasma to produce fertiliser and long-chain hydrocarbons. Mason Wakley talks to the chemists ...

Amide bonds are common in drugs because they are chemically stable, form readily and are biocompatible. They also help ...

Counter-intuitive finding suggests particle formation from natural and anthropogenic organic compounds might increase during extreme heat events ...

Process triggers protein denaturation and crosslinking to create material that gets close to imitating the strength, ...