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Stephanie Warren
The chemistry of cookies
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Making matter come alive
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George Whitesides
Toward a science of simplicity
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Dawn Maslar
The science of attraction
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Cesar Harada
How I teach kids to love science
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Aaron Sams
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The galactic recipe for a living planet
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How spectroscopy could reveal alien life
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The science behind a climate headline
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Martin Hanczyc
The line between life and not-life
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The art and craft of bread
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The self-assembling computer chips of the future
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Miguel A. Modestino
How to transform the chemical industry — one reaction at a time
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The next step in nanotechnology
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Award-winning teenage science in action
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Tina Arrowood
A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean
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The mysterious origins of life on Earth
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A lab the size of a postage stamp
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The deep sea's medicinal secrets
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Vaitea Cowan
How green hydrogen could end the fossil fuel era
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