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In this video I share a quick July 4th inspired science activity you can do with just a jar, water, oil, and food coloring. I ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is a little unusual in that it recognizes three things: a conceptual approach to building complicated molecules, a chemical reaction that exemplifies that concept, ...

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Abiogenesis (life from non-life) is an immensely difficult problem, one we may never really grasp. What evidence we do have does support the idea that this was really hard: it took somewhere around a ...