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Vapour-sniffing drug detector tested at the US-Mexico border

Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensitive than a dog’s nose can pick up their traces in seconds

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Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do chemistry

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Adhesive made from wood works in a standard glue gun

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How an ancient alchemy technique is transforming modern chemistry

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How an ancient alchemy technique is transforming modern chemistry

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New way to pull uranium from water can help China's nuclear power push

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A new version of the periodic table could change how we measure time

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Can a strange state of matter explain what life is – and how it began?

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Can a strange state of matter explain what life is – and how it began?

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Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds

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Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process

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Metals can be squeezed into sheets just a few atoms thick

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires

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Earth

Clever chemistry can make rocks absorb CO2 much more quickly

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Carbon-neutral hydrogen can be produced from farm waste

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Health

Wastewater treatment plants funnel PFAS into drinking water

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Mind

Can you and your family solve these mind-bending scientific riddles?

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