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  1. Chemistry

    Feline stimulant fends off mosquitoes

    Preliminary results suggest that catnip may be more effective at repelling mosquitoes than the widely used chemical DEET.

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  2. Chemistry

    Hassium holds its place at the table

    Researchers have performed the first ever chemical studies on the element hassium.

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  3. Chemistry

    Longest carbon-carbon bonds discovered

    Researchers have found a type of carbon-carbon bond that's twice as long as the longest naturally occurring bond linking two carbon atoms.

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  4. Chemistry

    Chemists make molecules with less mess

    Researchers have found a way for a widely used, commercially important chemical reaction to produce less pollution.

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  5. Chemistry

    Cut-ups create soft spots for chemistry

    Networks of fabricated, squishy vesicles as tiny as red blood cells and connected by thin tubules may one day serve as microscopic chemical laboratories, sensors, and even chemical computers.

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  6. Chemistry

    Perfecting Porosity

    Researchers are designing novel porous materials that could clean up toxins, store gases, or catalyze difficult chemical reactions.

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  7. Chemistry

    Chemists redesign natural antifreeze

    Researchers have synthesized a family of artificial molecules that resemble the compounds that keep Antarctic and Arctic fish from freezing.

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  8. Chemistry

    Designer surface proves deadly to bacteria

    Researchers have made a surface coating that kills bacteria on contact in a novel way.

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  9. Chemistry

    Burned by Flame Retardants?

    One particular class of flame retardants—polybrominated diphenyl ethers—is accumulating at alarming rates in the environment, taints human breast milk, and has toxic effects similar to the now-banned PCBs.

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  10. Chemistry

    The End of Good Science?

    Some chemists are sharing their research results more quickly and broadly as they begin to venture into electronic archives, where they can immediately post new, unreviewed papers, as physicists have done for a decade; others think such archives could mean the end of reliable chemistry research.

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  11. Chemistry

    Rocks May Have Given a Hand to Life

    In a new twist to the puzzle of how life developed from only left-handed amino acids, researchers have found that the common mineral calcite can segregate the molecules into their left-handed and right-handed varieties.

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  12. Chemistry

    Research shows why water acts weird

    A new technique shows a link between water's unusual physical properties and its abnormal molecular structure.

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