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The longest chains of single metal atoms ever have been made by researchers in China. The scientists believe these ...

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Structural biologist and x-ray crystallographer Ada Yonath, who won the chemistry Nobel prize in 2009 for her pioneering work ...

A graduate student at Hokkaido University in Japan has died following an accident involving hydrofluoric acid. Two other ...