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This DNA isn’t on fire

March 12, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

How do you keep your T-shirts from lighting on fire? Roll around in some herring sperm DNA. That’s obviously not the intrinsic response; researchers at Italy’s Politecnico di Torino lab led […]

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Chemistry, Science News, Technology

Take that, double helix

January 21, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Sure, two strands of DNA are pretty impressive, but what about four strands? Scientists at Cambridge University found that not only does it exist, it exists in functioning human cells. […]

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Chemistry, Medicine, Science News

Chemistry is cool

January 11, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Even amateur chemists can come up with some pretty brilliant ideas. Joe and Bob Switzer started developing what would be known as Day-Glo pigments after they graduated from UC Berkeley, […]

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Chemistry, Technology

So, what exactly did Curiosity find?

December 4, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

In short, carbon. Specifically, chlorinated methane gas, which contains carbon. Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument also found traces of water, sulfur, and perchlorate salts, but naturally the building blocks […]

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Chemistry, Geology, Science News, Space

Want more foam in your beer? There’s a gene for that

November 9, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Some would argue that beer-making is an art (it certainly produces art in many instances), but brewers know there’s a definitely science at work as well. And now one more element […]

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Chemistry, How Things Work, Science News

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