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Unlocking The Mysteries Of Quartz, From Ancient To Modern TimesPhotograph of one of the largest flawless quartz crystal balls in the world.

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Unlocking The Mysteries Of Quartz, From Ancient To Modern TimesPhotograph of one of the largest flawless quartz crystal balls in the world.
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Unlocking The Mysteries Of Quartz, From Ancient To Modern Times

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Iron From Space Helps Settle Age Of One Of Spain’s Greatest Treasuresgold coloured bangles and bowls lying on a table

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Iron From Space Helps Settle Age Of One Of Spain’s Greatest Treasuresgold coloured bangles and bowls lying on a table
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Iron From Space Helps Settle Age Of One Of Spain’s Greatest Treasures

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How Do Crystals Grow? In A Two-Step Process Driven By Their KinksProfessor Peter Vekilov holding up a crystal after having explained the process by which crystals grow from solutions.

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How Do Crystals Grow? In A Two-Step Process Driven By Their KinksProfessor Peter Vekilov holding up a crystal after having explained the process by which crystals grow from solutions.
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How Do Crystals Grow? In A Two-Step Process Driven By Their Kinks

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Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia May Contain Elements Outside The Periodic TableThe image of 76 Os Osmium

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Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia May Contain Elements Outside The Periodic TableThe image of 76 Os Osmium
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Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia May Contain Elements Outside The Periodic Table

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This Improved Catalyst Can Destroy "Forever Chemicals" With Just SunlightPFOA and a water bottle laying in water bed.

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This Improved Catalyst Can Destroy "Forever Chemicals" With Just SunlightPFOA and a water bottle laying in water bed.
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This Improved Catalyst Can Destroy "Forever Chemicals" With Just Sunlight

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What Is Carbon-14 Dating?A photo of a human skull, minus the jawbone, resting on a glass table. The scene is lit to look like an advanced science lab and shows a scalpel and a brush resting next to the skull, as well as numerous bottles and beakers in the background.

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What Is Carbon-14 Dating?A photo of a human skull, minus the jawbone, resting on a glass table. The scene is lit to look like an advanced science lab and shows a scalpel and a brush resting next to the skull, as well as numerous bottles and beakers in the background.
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What Is Carbon-14 Dating?

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The "Dolomite Problem" Involving Mysterious Crystal Formation Has Been Solved After Two CenturiesWenhao's open palms are in sharp focus and take up nearly all of the image. The rest of Wenhao's body is barely visible. He is holding three rocks, one in his right hand, two more in his left. The rocks are a motley of reddish-pink, reddish-brown, and black colors, with some white showing wear the edges have worn.

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The "Dolomite Problem" Involving Mysterious Crystal Formation Has Been Solved After Two CenturiesWenhao's open palms are in sharp focus and take up nearly all of the image. The rest of Wenhao's body is barely visible. He is holding three rocks, one in his right hand, two more in his left. The rocks are a motley of reddish-pink, reddish-brown, and black colors, with some white showing wear the edges have worn.
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The "Dolomite Problem" Involving Mysterious Crystal Formation Has Been Solved After Two Centuries

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New Evidence Reveals The Molecules In Saltwater Aren't Behaving Like Our Textbooks Told UsCharged particles (ions) – such as salt dissolved in water, affect atmospheric processes, but we've been wrongly thinking they congregate near the boundary.

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New Evidence Reveals The Molecules In Saltwater Aren't Behaving Like Our Textbooks Told UsCharged particles (ions) – such as salt dissolved in water, affect atmospheric processes, but we've been wrongly thinking they congregate near the boundary.
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New Evidence Reveals The Molecules In Saltwater Aren't Behaving Like Our Textbooks Told Us

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Does Honey Go Bad?Honey in glass jar on a wooden floor.

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Does Honey Go Bad?Honey in glass jar on a wooden floor.
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Does Honey Go Bad?

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Where Was The Cradle Of Life? Perhaps It Was A Shallow Warm Soda LakeA panoramic photo showing the shallow waters of Last Chance Lake surrounded by dry, spars grass and a horizon occupied by a line of trees.

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Where Was The Cradle Of Life? Perhaps It Was A Shallow Warm Soda LakeA panoramic photo showing the shallow waters of Last Chance Lake surrounded by dry, spars grass and a horizon occupied by a line of trees.
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Where Was The Cradle Of Life? Perhaps It Was A Shallow Warm Soda Lake

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World’s Smallest, Tightest Knot Ever Created Is Just 54 Atoms LongTrefoil Knot. Vector 3D Illustration.

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World’s Smallest, Tightest Knot Ever Created Is Just 54 Atoms LongTrefoil Knot. Vector 3D Illustration.
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World’s Smallest, Tightest Knot Ever Created Is Just 54 Atoms Long

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The Oxygen Bottleneck: Astronomers Find Huge New Problem For Alien CivilizationsAn alien world with two massive moons.

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The Oxygen Bottleneck: Astronomers Find Huge New Problem For Alien CivilizationsAn alien world with two massive moons.
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The Oxygen Bottleneck: Astronomers Find Huge New Problem For Alien Civilizations

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Key Molecules To Origins Of Life May Have Been Bubbling Away In Ancient Hot Springs On Primordial Earthhot spring in yellowstone national park; water is steaming and in shades of bright yellow going to green and blue towards the middle

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Key Molecules To Origins Of Life May Have Been Bubbling Away In Ancient Hot Springs On Primordial Earthhot spring in yellowstone national park; water is steaming and in shades of bright yellow going to green and blue towards the middle
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Key Molecules To Origins Of Life May Have Been Bubbling Away In Ancient Hot Springs On Primordial Earth

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What Is Iridium And Is It More Expensive Than Gold?Iridium piece on a white background its grey and shiny.

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What Is Iridium And Is It More Expensive Than Gold?Iridium piece on a white background its grey and shiny.
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What Is Iridium And Is It More Expensive Than Gold?

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Exclusive: Quantum Dots, From Old Colorful Glass To The Technology Of TomorrowA snap from our video interview showing bawendi overimpose on the nobel prize and colorful sqaure behinds

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Exclusive: Quantum Dots, From Old Colorful Glass To The Technology Of TomorrowA snap from our video interview showing bawendi overimpose on the nobel prize and colorful sqaure behinds
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Exclusive: Quantum Dots, From Old Colorful Glass To The Technology Of Tomorrow

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