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Chemistry World June 11, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Houdini Molecule Escapes Energy Trap A team of international chemists has captured and caught on camera a small, elusive molecule that has previously never been seen.
Chemistry World January 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Water Surprise for Atmospheric Scientists Lone water molecules can catalyze reactions between atmospheric gases, scientists have confirmed, throwing a wrench in the works of supposedly simple atmospheric chemistry.
Chemistry World September 12, 2010 Mike Brown	Comet shockwaves helped stimulate life on Earth The shock waves caused as comets hit the early Earth could have helped promote the formation of amino acids and the early building blocks of life, say US researchers.
Chemistry World June 10, 2011 Laura Howes	Quantum tunnelling creates the 'wrong' molecule Protons takes a quantum leap in carbene reaction to give chemists a surprise
Chemistry World March 17, 2015 Andy Extance	Reaction map suggests meteorite chemistry route to life UK chemists have found a reaction network that they believe shows that 'pretty much everyone' working on life's molecular origins is wrong -- but also 'right, in a sense'.
Chemistry World September 24, 2014 Richard Massey	Acetaldehyde photolysis: right to roam Australian and US chemists have re-shaped our understanding of an important photochemical reaction that defies classical transition state theory and proceeds via multiple barrierless 'roaming' pathways.
Chemistry World January 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Key Plank of Theoretical Chemistry Rescued Theoretical chemists can breathe a sigh of relief after the publication of a study which shows that a cornerstone of their discipline seems to be intact despite earlier evidence to the contrary.
Chemistry World December 16, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Radical experiment assesses interstellar nitrogen Radical reactions are challenging to measure at cold temperatures, but an international team of researchers have recently clocked the rate for atomic nitrogen and hydroxyl radicals at 56K.
Chemistry World December 8, 2008 Hayley Birch	Meteorites hitting oceans may have kick-started life Japanese scientists have done laboratory experiments to test the idea.
Chemistry World April 14, 2015 Anthony King	Chemicals formed on meteorites may have started life on Earth The molecules that kick-started life on primordial Earth could have been made in space and delivered by meteorites, according to researchers in Italy.
Chemistry World July 1, 2013 Laura Howes	Quantum tunnelling in space Interstellar dust clouds might be host to more chemistry than previously imagined.
Chemistry World February 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Quantum tunnelling sparks chemistry on cold surfaces Chemistry in deep space could be more diverse than thought after the discovery that larger atoms can quantum tunnel.
Chemistry World September 25, 2014 Simon Hadlington	First interstellar sighting of a branched alkyl molecule The radiotelescope in Atacama, Chile, has found the first branched molecule ever seen in interstellar space
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Jonathan Edwards	Textbook Reaction Has a Subtle Twist The SN2 bimolecular nucleophilic substitution, a textbook reaction fundamental to organic synthesis, has a subtle twist, according to researchers.
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Chemistry World May 11, 2012 Simon Perks	Gas separation with graphene nanopores Scientists in New Zealand, the US and Germany have developed a way of using tiny pores in a graphene sheet to separate different isotopes of helium.
Chemistry World March 22, 2007 Michael Gross	Eat Isotopes to Live Longer Food containing heavy isotopes of hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen could slow down the aging process. That's the claim of a biochemist who suggests that seeding key biological molecules with deuterium or carbon-13 could drastically reduce oxidative damage or even avert it altogether.
Technology Research News October 20, 2004	Molecules positioned on silicon Dubbed multi-step feedback control lithography, this new fabrication process could eventually be used to construct prototype molecular electronic devices for future technologies in areas like consumer electronics and biomedical diagnostics.
Chemistry World October 13, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Following Electrons' Chemical Reaction Quickstep The oscillating electronic states of molecules nearby and passing through a conical intersection can now be probed directly.
Chemistry World October 26, 2006 Victoria Gill	Volcanoes Reveal the Secret of the Origin of Life Life began with a chemical reaction under the sea over four billion years ago. That is the claim of a German scientist whose team has recreated a crucial part of the reaction, synthesizing all the necessary ingredients for a living organism.
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Technology Research News September 10, 2003	Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Munching microbes feed fuel cell Researchers from the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Germany have found a way to harvest the energy needed to power a fuel cell from chemical reactions that occur when E. coli bacteria consume sugar.
Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Seeds of life incubated in proto-planetary nurseries New findings imply that the organic chemistry required to produce the necessary molecules for life is part of the normal processes of planet formation.
Chemistry World April 2, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Hydrogen That Mimics Graphene Researchers claim to have discovered a new phase of hydrogen in which the diatomic molecules break apart to form six-atom rings, similar to graphene. The new phase, which occurs at very high pressures, could be a stepping stone towards a long-sought after phase: metallic hydrogen.
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Chemistry World October 3, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Assessing covalency in the hydrogen bond zoo Worried that the concept of hydrogen bonding has been getting fuzzier over time, scientists in Germany have sought a fresh look at the very nature of these bonds, and how much covalency they involve.
Chemistry World May 21, 2010 Simon Hadlington	H-bond partner-swapping seen in the flesh The dance moves that a water molecule makes as it flips hydrogen bonds from one partner to another have been captured by US researchers.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Water spilt with aluminium Aluminium clusters' ability to split water molecules and release hydrogen is dictated by the geometric arrangement of active sites on their surface, US scientists have discovered.
Chemistry World April 26, 2011 Manisha Lalloo	Pnicogens link up as new bond is discovered German researchers have discovered a chemical oddity - a new type of intramolecular interaction between group 15 atoms, which is as strong as a hydrogen bond. These interactions could be used to build supramolecular structures.
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Chemistry World June 19, 2013 John Hayward	Science of synthesis workbench edition: water in organic synthesis If a chemist is looking to do chemistry in (or on) water at the bench, Water in organic synthesis by Shu Kobayashi will be their guide.
Chemistry World March 25, 2013 David Bradley	Hydrogen bond under the microscope Scientists in Japan have designed a scanning tunnelling microscope tip that allowed them to measure electron transfer across a single hydrogen bond.
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Chemistry World June 30, 2015 Jessie-May Morgan	Space-like conditions give rise to metabolic precursors Mimicking interstellar conditions, a team of scientists at NASA has synthesized complex organic molecules thought to be necessary for the origin of life.
Chemistry World August 13, 2010 James Urquhart	Zooming in on intermolecular bonds German researchers have captured clear images of intermolecular bonds for the first time using a modified form of scanning tunnelling microscopy.
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Chemistry World July 13, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Where did Earth's water come from? One big question that remains unanswered about the evolution of the early Earth is how volatiles such as hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon arrived -- their presence being crucial to the origins of water and life.
Chemistry World July 13, 2015 Philip Ball	First snapshot of elusive intermediate supplies surprise A team near Zurich in Switzerland, has been able to take a single-molecule snapshot of an intermediate in a common class of organic reactions.
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Chemistry World July 2, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Urine turned into hydrogen fuel US researchers have developed an efficient way of producing hydrogen from urine - a feat that could not only fuel the cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater.