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Growing a microgarden

17 May 2013  Research

Barium carbonate crystals have been coaxed to form nano-flowers by controlling their chemical environment


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3D printer churns out bionic ear

17 May 2013 Research

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Seamless integration of electronics and tissue could be used with other artificial implants and synthetic organs

An udder cuppa?

16 May 2013 Research

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A chemical analysis of tea suggests cows should be chewing the cha

Australian budget hits higher education hard

16 May 2013 News and Analysis

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Chemists hope that central relevance of their science to the big questions will afford them some protection from cuts

GSK partners Save the Children for Africa project  

Company and charity will work together to provide medicines for the developing world

Lawrence Livermore lab offers voluntary redundancy to 10% of employees  

US Department of Energy lab is trying to address anticipated budgetary difficulties by cut...

Desktop printed paper electronics  

An easier way to create printed circuits on paper using a liquid metal ink

Selective sulfane sulfur detection  

Molecular probes could shed light on mechanisms of disease

Sugar solution to toxic gold recovery  

The environmental legacy of salvaging gold from electronic waste can be dramatically cut u...

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Survival in the freezer

2 May 2013 Premium contentFeature

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How do animals survive in the extreme cold? James Mitchell Crow investigates

Lean green microbe machines  

For its proponents, algae hold the promise of a clean source of fuel, food or drugs. Antho...

What does DNA do?  Premium content

The more we learn about DNA, the less we seem to know, as Philip Ball discovers

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The name's (quadruple) bond?

Philip Ball discusses the contentious issue of C2 bonding. Dare we draw four lines?

Totally Synthetic

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Paul Docherty faces his fears of frontier molecular orbital theory

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Not short of news

A death, an explosion and toxic letters grabbed the headlines