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Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
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A trio of scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work using computing and artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of protein structure. “One of the discoveries being recognised this year concerns the construction of spectacular proteins,” says Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. “The other is ..read more
Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
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The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has announced the immediate cancellation of the controversial herbicide chlorthal dimethyl, also known as Dacthal or DCPA. The cancellation follows evidence that chlorthal dimethyl can cause damage to the development of unborn babies. The herbicide is currently used in 12 products in Australia, all of which are ..read more
Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new details in Mars’s Gale crater which helps explain how the Red Planet went from one with a climate with liquid water to the inhospitable place it is today. It may help scientists determine if there ever was life on Mars. Evidence gained by rovers on Mars makes the pretty ..read more
Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
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It’s a central feature of chemistry: the covalent bond, one of the most common chemical bonds, happens when 2 atoms share pairs of electrons. Most of the molecules that make us – from proteins, to water, to the air we breathe – are made of atoms in these pair-sharing covalent bonds. Nearly 100 years ago ..read more
Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
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Australian astronomers have released the chemical fingerprints of almost a million stars, helping piece together the history of the Milky Way galaxy. The data set is the culmination of 10 years of observations at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) near Coonabarabran, about 500km west of Sydney in New South Wales. The release of the data coincides ..read more
Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
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Scientists believe they are beginning to understand the conditions which sparked life on Earth by demonstrating in the lab a massive multiplication of DNA in just minutes. More than 4 billion years ago, chemical compounds came together to form life. This event occurred when earth was very young – just a few hundred million years ..read more
Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
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Astronomers have overturned long-held beliefs about the composition of dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres was the first asteroid to be discovered, when in 1801 it was spotted by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi. It is the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system and is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between the orbits ..read more
Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
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Chemists have made an extremely energy-dense, environmentally friendly fuel out of nitrogen. They’ve done it by employing one of chemistry’s favourite hobbies, bullying nitrogen n (N2) into weird structures. An explosion occurred, but it was a small one. The Chinese team has successfully made the element adopt a diamond-like structure, called cubic gauche nitrogen (cg-N ..read more
Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
1w ago
A US-based team of chemists has found a more efficient way to extract precious metals from electronics, making e-waste cheaper to recycle. The study is published in Nature Chemical Engineering. Traditionally, metals in waste are recycled with hydrometallurgy, which involves soaking in corrosive substances to leach metals out, or pyrometallurgy, which involves heating things to ..read more
Cosmos Magazine » Chemistry
2w ago
Ever had an aged cheddar or parmesan that was extra sharp and thought – how old is too old for cheese? Well, the aging just got a whole lot longer. A cheese found in northwestern China is 3,600 years old and is the subject of a paper published today in the journal Cell. If that’s ..read more