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• These are the same material

  micROCKScopica by Bernardo Cesare

  JANUARY 23, 2020

• Turning blue

  Ania Sergeenko

  JANUARY 17, 2020

• Orange organelles

  Zhengnian Li

  JANUARY 14, 2020

• Bottle chemistry

  Martin Kostov

  JANUARY 10, 2020

• Stretchy structural color

  Laboratory of Soft & Wet Matter at Hokkaido University

  JANUARY 7, 2020

• The inner life of cells

  Ralph Lange

  JANUARY 6, 2020

• Dandelions and darkness

  Viney Ghai

  DECEMBER 31, 2019

• Nano plum tree

  Qi Zeng

  DECEMBER 17, 2019

• Solid-state sand art

  JoAnna Milam-Guerrero

  DECEMBER 16, 2019

• Jingle cells

  Courtney Hazelton-Harrington

  DECEMBER 5, 2019

• Mixing mix-up

  Lina-Marie Baum and Silke Müsse

  DECEMBER 3, 2019

• Aurora

  Andryj Borys

  NOVEMBER 27, 2019

• Seeing inside a living brain

  Hongjie Dai group

  NOVEMBER 21, 2019

• Droplets with a droplet

  Alberto Concellón

  NOVEMBER 19, 2019

• Mount Bodipy

  Maodie Wang and Guanyu Zhang

  NOVEMBER 13, 2019

• Science nonfiction

  ACS Materials Lett.

  NOVEMBER 8, 2019

• Supersized crystals

  Daniel Martin, (J. Org. Chem. 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01737)

  NOVEMBER 7, 2019

• Seeing spots

  Liselotte Karulf and Samuel K. Pedersen

  OCTOBER 29, 2019

• A spooky separation

  Jon Grimm

  OCTOBER 29, 2019

• True Blood

  Marius Pelmus

  OCTOBER 24, 2019

• Look, don’t touch

  Ana Firmina

  OCTOBER 23, 2019

• Rainbow deposition

  Joel Schneider

  OCTOBER 16, 2019

• Cloud of quinine

  Martina Hestericova

  OCTOBER 15, 2019

• Why so blue?

  Jon Grimm

  OCTOBER 8, 2019

• These colors do run

  Lizzy Drew

  OCTOBER 8, 2019

• Pipe dream

  Dulce Simão

  OCTOBER 3, 2019

• Well plated

  Arthi Ravi

  OCTOBER 2, 2019

• The Universe in Your Hands

  Diana González

  SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

• Strong as silk

  Tomás Almeida

  SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

• What’s in your ink

  Claire Hartmann-Thompson

  SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

• Dyes divided

  R. Allen and D. Tshudy

  SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

• Pore strip

  Mark Goodman

  SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

• A little light drawing

  J. Am. Chem. Soc.

  SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

• Carpet of nanoflowers

  Qi Zeng

  SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

• Aloe falsa

  Christopher Hobbs and Katya Sheridan

  AUGUST 29, 2019

• Laser activated

  Bruna Martins de França

  AUGUST 27, 2019

• Organic kryptonite

  Jayden Price

  AUGUST 20, 2019

• Crude fluorescence

  Nuray Altınölçek

  AUGUST 9, 2019

• See the vial for the trees

  Mohamed A. Seleem

  AUGUST 7, 2019

• Chemistry in Pictures Water Photo Contest winners

  Rukmava Chatterjee

  AUGUST 3, 2019

• Bubbling catalyst

  Chris Thomson/@VilelaLAB

  AUGUST 1, 2019

• Lightning in a bottle

  Pedro Amaral

  JULY 30, 2019

• Bar fight

  Smart Biology

  JULY 25, 2019

• Forgetfulness is a virtue

  Frank Distefano

  JULY 23, 2019

• Diazo rainbow

  Eric Levesque

  JULY 18, 2019

• Eating through iron

  Sami Khan and Kripa K. Varanasi

  JULY 17, 2019

• Nano succulent

  Qi Zeng

  JULY 11, 2019

• Hang on there

  Davide Ceradini

  JULY 9, 2019

• Embedded ice

  Evgenii Modin

  JULY 5, 2019

• Freeze-thaw

  Paul Schwartz

  JULY 2, 2019

• Water from thin air

  Rukmava Chatterjee

  JUNE 27, 2019

• Wax on, water off

  Bidyut Das

  JUNE 25, 2019

• Blue death

  Jesús Sanjosé-Orduna

  JUNE 20, 2019

• Watching ice crystallize

  Alexandra Brumberg

  JUNE 18, 2019

• Structure refinement in fructo

  Mai-vy Nguyen and Anthony Addison

  JUNE 11, 2019

• Where’d I put that photocatalyst?

  William Weigel

  JUNE 6, 2019

• Chilly crystals

  Nieves Pérez

  MAY 30, 2019

• Fire in ice

  David Gygi

  MAY 28, 2019

• Liquid metal ferrofluid

  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b22699

  MAY 21, 2019

• The impervious inchworm

  Po-Yen Chen and Haitao Yang

  MAY 17, 2019

• Polymer Tesseract

  Chris Thomson

  MAY 15, 2019

• Crème brûlée blooms

  Paul Furuta

  MAY 10, 2019

• Layer cake

  Willis Weigand

  MAY 8, 2019

• An explosive contaminant

  Daniel McAteer

  MAY 3, 2019

• ZIF POW BANG

  Sci. Adv. 2019, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav9044

  APRIL 30, 2019

• No strings attached

  Qianqian Shi

  APRIL 29, 2019

• When your flask looks more like a petri dish

  Nuray Altinolcek

  APRIL 26, 2019

• ChemBeads

  AbbVie

  APRIL 18, 2019

• Winter is coming

  Rukmava Chatterjee

  APRIL 16, 2019

• pH is pretty

  PollitaLoquita

  APRIL 9, 2019

• Rainbow in the rock

  Tyler Thrasher

  APRIL 4, 2019

• Black sunburst

  Andrzej Danel

  APRIL 2, 2019

• #Twinning

  Bernardo Cesare

  MARCH 29, 2019

• All hail halides

  Lea Nienhaus

  MARCH 27, 2019

• Tiny periodic table

  Richard Cousins/nmRC

  MARCH 21, 2019

• Shape ID

  Xie Yongshu

  MARCH 19, 2019

• Almost weightless

  Science

  MARCH 14, 2019

• Dancing droplets

  Nat. Commun.

  MARCH 12, 2019

• Birthday confetti

  Lana Hiscock

  MARCH 7, 2019

• Industrial art

  Lorenzo de Ferra

  MARCH 5, 2019

• Lycurgus cup

  Vittorio Saggiomo

  FEBRUARY 28, 2019

• Crystal contest 2018

  Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo

  FEBRUARY 26, 2019

• Gigantic geochemistry

  Alexander Van Driessche/Wikimedia Commons

  FEBRUARY 21, 2019

• Fluorescence unmasked

  Jon Grimm

  FEBRUARY 19, 2019

• Crystal dahlia

  Eric Formo

  FEBRUARY 14, 2019

• C’est magnifique!

  Vance Williams

  FEBRUARY 12, 2019

• Cotton ball flames

  Ben B. Cromwell/University of Rhode Island

  FEBRUARY 7, 2019

• Chemical shoes

  Victor Hugo Ramos Alvarado

  FEBRUARY 5, 2019

• Stacking liquids

  Hugo Ramos Alvarado and Lázaro Sierra Zequeira

  JANUARY 31, 2019

• Eternal flame

  Outside Chronicles via YouTube

  JANUARY 29, 2019

• Crystal clear

  Cesar Menor Salvan

  JANUARY 22, 2019

• Dat Schlenk line

  Saurabh Chitnis

  JANUARY 17, 2019

• Orange potion

  Jon Grimm

  JANUARY 15, 2019

• Bronze aged

  City of Oslo Art Collection and J. Spectral Imaging

  JANUARY 10, 2019

• Golden touch

  Takao Someya Group/University of Tokyo

  JANUARY 9, 2019

• Quantum chemistree

  Georgiana Stoica

  JANUARY 6, 2019

• O chemistree 2018

  Barbora Balonova

  JANUARY 7, 2019

• True colors

  Barbora Balonova

  JANUARY 2, 2019

• Stars of the scorpionate

  Steven Welsh

  DECEMBER 20, 2018

• Not-so-simple syrup

  Brian Wagner

  DECEMBER 18, 2018

• Crystal fan art

  Andrzej Danel

  DECEMBER 13, 2018

• Nanoflowers in bloom

  Roshini Ramachandran and Dahee Jung

  DECEMBER 12, 2018

• Shining better together

  Yujie Tu

  DECEMBER 4, 2018

• Panning for gold

  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b0955

  NOVEMBER 28, 2018

• Brain in a dish

  Muotri Lab

  NOVEMBER 21, 2018

• Jack-o’-ligand

  Renee Sifri

  NOVEMBER 15, 2018

• Metal slug

  NurdRage

  NOVEMBER 13, 2018

• Mirror ball

  Tridib Sarma

  NOVEMBER 8, 2018

• Crystal labyrinth

  Jesús San José Orduna

  NOVEMBER 7, 2018

• Pappardelle Bolognese

  Kenneth Maly

  NOVEMBER 2, 2018

• As above, so below

  Juan Antonio Rivas Loaiza

  OCTOBER 30, 2018

• Plastic munchers

  Anutthaman Parthasarathy/Richard Hailstone/RIT imaging facility

  OCTOBER 26, 2018

• An alchemist’s garden

  Will Carden/McElwee-White Lab

  OCTOBER 23, 2018

• Let there be light

  Dusan Kolarski

  OCTOBER 15, 2018

• Lab in a box

  Adrian Villalta-Cerdas

  OCTOBER 10, 2018

• Hot and cold chemistry

  Alexander Lyapunov

  OCTOBER 3, 2018

• Eye of Sauron

  Wojtek Stawski

  SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

• Ye olde centrifuge

  Kelsey McCoy

  SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

• Crystalline dream

  Pamela Knoll

  SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

• Psychedelic spirits

  Bernardo Cesare

  SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

• Synthetic springtail

  Science Advances/B. Valentine

  SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

• Homer’s donut

  Robert Pipal

  SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

• Nanoparticles get a lift

  Nat. Commun.

  SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

• Golden bouquet

  Nick Westra van Holthe

  SEPTEMBER 5

• Like cracking a book

  Ralph Lange

  SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

• Aurora borealis

  Indrajit Srivastava

  AUGUST 29, 2018

• Four-sided molecule, four-sided crystals

  Chip Reisman

  AUGUST 22, 2018

• Crystal rain

  Leah Lowder

  AUGUST 17, 2018

• Crystal light bulb

  Ashraf Aboelela, Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong

  AUGUST 14, 2018

• What lies beneath

  Natalie Wright

  AUGUST 10, 2018

• ShanghaiTech Exhibit

  Ma/ACS

  AUGUST 2, 2018

• Drop test

  ZARM Drop Tower Operation and Service Company

  JULY 31, 2018

• Forming good habits

  Billy Chen, Luke Schenck, Zhiwei Yin, and Alfred Y. Lee

  JULY 26, 2018

• Flag column chromatography

  Veselin Nasufović

  JULY 25, 2018

• Tiny house

  Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 2018, DOI: 10.1116/1.5020128

  JULY 19, 2018

• Ruthenium rubies

  Rachael Pickens

  JULY 17, 2018

• Starburst

  Roberto Diaz-Rodriguez, MSc Student, Thompson group; J. Org. Chem. 2013, DOI: 10.1021/jo302277d

  JULY 13, 2018

• Plastic snack

  Environ. Sci. Technol.2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02661

  JULY 10, 2018

• Scorched worlds

  Cassie Gates

  JULY 9, 2018

• Simulating cancer

  Karolina Valente

  JULY 5, 2018

• Heady henna

  Safia Jilani

  JUNE 29, 2018

• Enchanted rose

  Christopher Gordon Thomson

  JUNE 27, 2018

• Twisted crystals

  Peter Sherrell

  JUNE 21, 2018

• All that glitters isn’t gold

  Philip Hughes

  JUNE 19, 2018

• Fireworks in a flask

  Nikhil Gaikwad

  JUNE 13, 2018

• Raise a glass to fluorescence

  Brian Wagner/UPEI

  JUNE 12, 2018

• Letting sparks fly

  Susan Vickers

  JUNE 7, 2018

• Lapus lattice

  Troy Comi

  JUNE 5, 2018

• Call of Cthulhu

  Charles M

  JUNE 1, 2018

• ‘Dusty peacock’

  Jess Wade and Li Wan

  MAY 30, 2018

• Water it down, turn it up

  Adam Henwood and Thorri Gunnlaugsson

  MAY 24, 2018

• Faux ice floes

  Anthony Carroll

  MAY 23, 2018

• Inorganic parrot

  Yuanyuan Wang

  MAY 21, 2018

• Sun-kissed rotovaps

  Roshan Ganesh Bhaskar

  MAY 10, 2018

• I ❤ chromatography

  Prajwalita Das

  May 9, 2018

• Fluorescence

  May 3, 2018

• A melting liquid

  Vance Williams

  May 3, 2018

• Turns out you can rush art

  Chris King

  May 3, 2018

• Frozen

  Phillip Servio

  May 3, 2018

• Enlightened suspension

  Troy Hollinsworth

  May 3, 2018

• Crystals in bloom

  Kathryn Campbell

  May 3, 2018

• One fish, two fish, red fish …

  Adrian Dingle

  May 3, 2018

• in the mix

  Matti Koivisto

  May 3, 2018

• ‘Crystal Landscape’

  Alexis D. Ostrowski

  May 3, 2018

• The search is on

  Carmen Sivakumaren

  May 3, 2018

• Colorful chromium

  David Zigler

  May 1, 2018

• Totally tubular

  Parinaz Fathi and Fatemeh Ostadhossein

  APRIL 27, 2018

• Chemical smile

  Michel Rickhaus and Andrew Frawley

  APRIL 25, 2018

• Disco DOM

  Oskar Jönsson

  APRIL 19, 2018

• Nice Threads

  Xiang Li

  APRIL 12, 2018

• A complicated way to make salt

  Jarrod Sage

  APRIL 10, 2018

• Tornado in a flask

  Craig Fraser

  APRIL 5, 2018

• Crystal sisters

  Georgia Orton

  April 4, 2018

• Hold it right there

  Ryan Latterman

  March 23, 2018

• Cracked fractal

  Lynn Stevens

  March 21, 2018

• Losing pressure

  Bob Pearce

  March 15, 2018

• Blue moon

  Constantinos Neochoritis

  March 13, 2018

• Glowstick goo show and tell

  Allen Jones

  March 8, 2018

• The flower in volcanic rock

  Masamichi Shiono, Mari Sakaue, Shinichi Tomita/Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation/Japanese Society of Microscopy

  March 6, 2018

• Just add borane

  Glen Junor

  March 1, 2018

• Mirror, mirror in the flask

  Andryj Borys

  February 26, 2018

• 2-D aquarium

  Fatemeh Ostadhossein

  February 22, 2018

• Dissolving money

  Megan Prien

  February 20, 2018

• Illuminating the way forward

  Nikos Nikitas, PhD student, University of Athens

  February 15, 2018

• Watching the heat wave

  Yan Liang/Beauty of Science

  February 14, 2018

• Moody goo

  Ryan Latterman and his Chemistry 168 class

  February 8, 2018

• Sea creatures?

  Wenting Zhu

  February 6, 2018

• Beaming with pride

  Andres Tretiakov

  January 31, 2018

• Brilliant bacteria

  Erik Rodriguez

  January 30, 2018

• Cantina chemistry

  Anna Eliasson

  January 25, 2018

• Color by solvent

  Cryst. Growth Des. 2018

  January 23, 2018

• Thunder stone

  Ji-Elle/Wikimedia Commons

  January 18, 2018

• SiC crystal, brah!

  Yoko Taka

  January 16, 2018

• Colorful shards

  Ralph Lange

  January 10, 2018

• Cobalt snowflakes

  Kehley Davies

  January 9, 2018

• Feelin' it

  Lucia Feriancova

  January 4, 2018

• Melting point

  Malaika Argade

  January 2, 2018

• Burnt out

  Tim Atallah & Justin Caram

  December 29, 2017

• Truly sublime

  Mirry Criel

  December 29, 2017

• An eye for dye

  Erik Rodriguez

  December 21, 2017

• Nanoscale snakeskin

  Loro Corazza/SupramoleculART

  December 19, 2017

• Uranium glass

  Tammy Neslin

  December 14, 2017

• So pure it pops

  Cecilia Bottecchia/Eindhoven University of Technology (@cecibottecchia, @NoelGroupTUE)

  December 12, 2017

• Fluorescent jumble

  Lynn Stevens

  December 7, 2017

• Looking for electrons

  Preston J. MacDougall

  Dec. 6, 2017

• Otherworldly extraction

  Miguel Pinto

  November 29, 2017

• Unburstable bubbles

  Yixin Liu

  November 28, 2017

• Gathered together

  Jocelyn Lanorio

  November 21, 2017

• Midair crystallization

  Franziska Emmerling

  November 17, 2017

• Big Bird is born

  Andryj Borys

  November 16, 2017

• Fluorescence in everyday objects

  Brian Wagner

  November 15, 2017

• An icy surprise

  Joe Forzano

  November 9, 2017

• Cruciferous chemistry

  Sylvain Mercier

  November 7, 2017

• Blue ribbon crystals

  Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo

  November 4, 2017

• Cooling the qubits

  Google/Erik Lucero

  November 2, 2017

• Handheld thermite

  Edmund Escudero

  June 8, 2017

• Tai Chi chemistry

  Su Chen

  May 26, 2017

• The crystals are always greener…

  Brent K. Rubio, assistant professor, Honolulu Community College

  May 24, 2017

• 2016 Contest Winner:
  This is what your DNA looks like

  Amy Davis Roth

  Volume 95 Issue 21

• K12 Contest Winner:
  Turn your pennies into 'gold'

  Rosemarie Pittenger

  Volume 95 Issue 21

• Some light chemistry

  Matas Steponaitis

  Volume 95 Issue 17

• Crystals in bloom

  Kathryn Campbell

  Volume 95 Issue 14

• Liquids not playing nice

  Maria Zakharova

  Volume 95 Issue 11

• Chemical jungle

  Ehsan Fereyduni

  Volume 95 Issue 10

• Crystal closeup

  James Hope and his pupils at Millfield

  Volume 95 Issue 8

• Liquid rainbow

  Ralph Lange

  Volume 95 Issue 5

• Curly crystals

  Brian Love

  Volume 94 Issue 47

• 'Millefiori'

  Fabian Oefner

  Volume 94 Issue 12

• Rainbow in a test tube

  Lana Šariç

  Volume 94 Issue 7

• Snow on the leaves

  David Maitland

  Volume 94 Issue 3

• Goldeneye

  Quinton Meisner and Lei Zhu/Florida State University

  Volume 93 Issue 49

• Happy little plant cells

  Phil Gates

  Volume 93 Issue 45

• Brilliant Blue

  Colin Hanson/Hanson Research Group

  Volume 93 Issue 41