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Surface Chemistry

This biogeochemist was key to extracting DNA from an ancient sample that had stumped scientists for years

Considering how minerals store and protect DNA helped sequence the oldest DNA on record


Tobacco cutworms insert oxygen into nanocarbon hoops and rings

Larvae perform a chemical transformation that would be challenging to do in a reaction flask

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Environment

Improving concrete, one of the world’s worst materials

A competition in Paris shows how innovations can reduce concrete’s adverse environmental impact



Miniature polymeric tubes separate enantiomers

Devices could offer an alternative to chromatography and speed screening of chiral compounds