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Evidence mounts that Mayak facility was responsible for ruthenium release as ‘satellite crash’ explanation given by Russian officials scorned

Macaques are good puzzle solvers, but it was unclear if they use logic or just made choices to maximise their reward. Now a test shows logic really is involved

Gas bubble simulations support the idea that life began in hydrothermal vents

Rewriting the textbooks is our duty, because credit and recognition are much more than a reward for the individual. We use them to show what we value, and what matters to us – what lies behind us to be discovered is just as important as what lies ahead

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Download the puzzles from the August print issue of Chemistry World

No princes were needed on the quest for structure factors

“Wildling” rodents could overcome roadblocks in immunology research

On this week’s show: Researchers suspect pulling water out of the ground may cause earthquakes, and what we can learn about human cancer from a dog cancer that has been around for about 8000 years

Court reverses agency action that cited a rising population

3D map of bright, pulsing stars shows galactic disk is S-shaped, not flat

Lightning in a bottle

These bolts, which resemble lightning, are the result of excited argon atoms returning to their ground state. Pedro Amaral and Donald Hall, PhD candidates at Drexel University, created the demonstration by injecting argon gas into a round-bottom flask. Using a Tesla coil as a source of electrons, they generated excited argon radicals to form argon plasma. The argon atoms released light as they returned to their ground state. This photo is part of a 24-part series... Читать дальше...

Linde started up a gas production facility supplying CH4, H2, and CO2 to Evonik Industries' second world-scale methionine complex

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