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Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

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This year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists — Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi — for the ...

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