Mimicking enzymes, chemists produce large, useful carbon rings

Drawing inspiration from nature, chemists have discovered an efficient way to wrangle long, snaking molecules to form large rings — rings that form the backbone of many pharmaceuticals but are difficult to produce in the lab.
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How slick water and black shale in fracking combine to produce radioactive waste

Study explains how radioactive radium transfers to wastewater in the widely-used method to extract oil and gas.
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Scientists believe a CANCER drug could help women’s ovaries produce more eggs 

It has always been believed that human females have a limited number of eggs, but that theory could be debunked after it was revealed that women’s ovaries may be able to grow new ones.
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Could Aluminum Nitride Be Engineered to Produce Quantum Bits?

Newswise imageThe leading method for creating quantum bits, or qubits, currently involves exploiting the structural defects in diamonds. But using NERSC resources, University of Chicago researchers found that the same defect could be engineered in cheaper aluminum nitride. If confirmed by experiments, this could significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing quantum technologies.
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