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George Zaidan
Why your phone battery gets worse over time
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The galactic recipe for a living planet
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Apr 2020
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Could a breathalyzer detect cancer?
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Jan 2020
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Cathy Mulzer
The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone
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Nov 2019
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Tina Arrowood
A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean
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Oct 2019
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The mysterious origins of life on Earth
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Aug 2019
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The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
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A new class of drug that could prevent depression and PTSD
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Jonathan Wilker
What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue
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Elizabeth Cox
Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas?
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Nov 2018
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A crash course in organic chemistry
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Jul 2018
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Heidi M. Sosik
The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone
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Carolyn Bertozzi
What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you
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Aug 2017
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The genius of Marie Curie
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Triona McGrath
How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry
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May 2017
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Ashton Cofer
A plan to recycle the unrecyclable
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Ani Liu
Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology
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Jonathan Rossiter
A robot that eats pollution
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Deepika Kurup
A young scientist's quest for clean water
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George Tulevski
The next step in nanotechnology
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A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets
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Laura Robinson
The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor
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Andrés Ruzo
The boiling river of the Amazon
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How we can make crops survive without water
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