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Planetary Science

Sulfur was key to the first water on Earth

Hydrogen bonded with sulfur may have given our world its first water after the hydrogen broke away and joined with oxygen in the planet’s crust.

By Ken Croswell
Materials Science

Jurassic Park’s amber-preserved dino DNA is now inspiring a way to store data 

By Payal Dhar
Environment

Landfills belch toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into the air

By Nikk Ogasa

More Stories in Chemistry

  1. Chemistry

    ‘Flavorama’ guides readers through the complex landscape of flavor

    In her new book, Arielle Johnson, former resident scientist at the restaurant Noma, explains how to think like a scientist in the kitchen.

    By Karen Kwon
  2. Chemistry

    A new method of making diamonds doesn’t require extreme pressure 

    Lab-grown diamonds can form at atmospheric pressure in a liquid of gallium, iron, nickel and silicon.

    By Emily Conover
  3. Space

    How a sugar acid crucial for life could have formed in interstellar clouds

    Computer calculations and lab experiments have revealed a possible mechanism for the creation of glyceric acid, which has been seen in meteorites.

    By Saugat Bolakhe
  4. Chemistry

    Protein whisperer Oluwatoyin Asojo fights neglected diseases

    Oluwatoyin Asojo’s work on hookworm protein structures have contributed to a vaccine being tested in people.

    By Carmen Drahl
  5. Humans

    These are the chemicals that give teens pungent body odor

    Steroids and high levels of carboxylic acids in teenagers’ body odor give off a mix of pleasant and acrid scents.

    By Skyler Ware
  6. Chemistry

    The smallest known molecular knot is made of just 54 atoms

    Chemists are still trying to figure out why this combination of gold, phosphorus, oxygen and carbon atoms resulted in a molecular knot in the first place.

    By Anna Gibbs
  7. Chemistry

    Here’s how tardigrades go into suspended animation

    A new study offers more clues about the role of oxidation in signaling transitions between alive and mostly dead in tardigrades.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  8. Climate

    Capturing methane from the air would slow global warming. Can it be done?

    Removing methane from the atmosphere requires different technology from removing carbon dioxide. Scientists are taking on the challenge.

    By Katherine Bourzac
  9. Chemistry

    ‘Most Delicious Poison’ explores how toxins rule our world

    In his debut book, Noah Whiteman tours through chemistry, evolution and world history to understand toxins and how we’ve come to use them.

    By Aaron Tremper