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NewsHow silkworms can help astronauts
Silk fibres stay tough and ductile even at low temperatures, making them potentially perfect for space
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NewsSmartphones modified to detect norovirus
Handheld detection system is sensitive enough to catch just a few particles of norovirus
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NewsMicrobes and renewable energy turn carbon dioxide into edible protein
A new process uses microbes and renewable energy to make proteins for human consumption
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NewsEnhance explanations of intermolecular forces
How small prompts can result in big leaps in student understanding
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NewsThank the Nobel prize winners for your mobile phone
Start a lesson with the Nobel prize-winning chemistry involved in lithium-ion batteries
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NewsWhich is best: practical or simulation?
Students interact with practicals and simulations differently, but does one approach come with better learning outcomes?
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NewsCatalyst metal recovery adds greener notes to whisky production
Magnetite nanoparticles recover copper waste from whisky manufacturing process
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News2D synthetic clay sheets could create easy to recycle crisp packets
Inorganic nanosheets could lower the carbon footprint of food packaging
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NewsPoly(ionic liquid)s act like taste buds for simple sugars
New system could find use in food monitoring or disease detection
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NewsMetacognitive motivation
How it can positively influence students’ beliefs in their own abilities
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NewsCarbon nanotubes grown using kitchen chemicals
Cheap compounds found in kitchen cupboards can act as catalysts for making carbon nanotubes
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NewsDirty stirrer bars can act as phantom catalysts
Contaminated stirrer bars could be ruining experiments that are sensitive to tiny amounts of metal catalysts
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NewsWater found in asteroid dust
Water detected in samples from an asteroid’s surface for the first time
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NewsRecycling plastic bottles into jet fuel
Teach your students how plastic waste is being converted into hydrocarbon fuels
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NewsRecognition for outstanding contributions to chemistry education
Meet the winners of this year’s RSC awards for chemistry educators
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NewsProbing difficulties with quantum atomic models
What you can do to make grasping atomic representations easier