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Slick trick separates oil and water with 99.9 per cent purity

Oil and water can be separated efficiently by pumping the mixture through thin channels between two semipermeable membranes

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Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory in 1912, the year after she received here second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for mastering structures of proteins

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Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in more than a decade

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Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrogen fuel

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Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrogen fuel

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Antidote to deadly pesticides boosts bee survival

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Quantum experiment rewrites a century-old chemistry law

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Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in quartz rock

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How to temper chocolate

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How Great British Bake Off's Josh Smalley tempers chocolate

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We could make fuel and fertiliser by recycling wastewater

Wastewater, which is full of pollutants that contain nitrogen, can be directly fed into a new chemical reactor that converts it into ammonia, with purified water and oxygen as by-products

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Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 – the heaviest ever

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Hydrogel can preserve medications for weeks outside of a fridge

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Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its length

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Chemists invoke bizarre Maxwell's demon on the largest scale yet

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