Science research news - extracts for your class – Page 5
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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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App quantifies chemicals in thin-layer chromatography
A simple web app converts thin-layer chromatography into a quantitative analytical technique
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Genes that make lemons sour revealed
Don’t end your lesson on a sour note; start it with this starter slide on strong and weak acids
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Chemical analysis reveals origin of Pompeian mosaic tiles
Portable spectrometers shed light on the materials used in ancient Roman mosaics
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Chop! Chop! Creating useful chemicals from lignin
Breaking the hardy carbon-carbon bond in wood puts new fuels on the horizon
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Cooking up a storm with fertiliser
Scientists find a novel way to recycle waste oil – using it as fertiliser
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Catalyst makes liquid fuels from renewable resources
A step closer to producing fuels for trucks and airplanes from biomass
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Chemists weave granny and triple trefoil knots
Giant molecules with a carbon backbone by synthetic chemistry
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A new angle on collision theory
Scientists shoot the world’s smallest projectiles – individual molecules – and use them to study how reactions happen
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Healthy mice start to smell like sick ones
Sniffer mice and chemical analysis suggest that sickness odours are contagious
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The science of sweeter sugars
The sweetest saccharides form the strongest and shortest hydrogen bonds
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Synthetic retina is looking good
New molybdenum disulfide and graphene implant curves with retina – with lesson starter slides
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Dynamic surfaces can be switched by magnetic fields
Magnetic fields can alter surface friction and stickiness
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Mineral filters cut carcinogens in smoked foods
Cutting edge science research with a consumer application
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Hundreds of helium compounds could be hiding in Earth’s mantle
Use this cutting edge research into helium compounds in class
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