Things We Don’t Know
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What colour were the dinosaurs?
12th January, 2021
What colour were the dinosaurs, were they feathered, scaled, and did they have structural colour?
Hormesis
6th January, 2021
At low concentrations toxins, drugs, radiation and other “stressors” may improve health rather than damage it. Scientists are looking into why.
One Nobel Prize Later...
9th December, 2020
Buckminsterfullerenes were discovered by accident when Nobel prize winers were trying to solve how cyanopolyynes form in space... we still don't know.
Cop That!
28th November, 2020
Copper's variable oxidation states and low coordination let it change the flavour of whisky, interfere with chemical syntheses, or even give us scurvy
Ambient chemistry
25th November, 2020
Chemists are exploring ways to mimic nature’s selective, low-temperature biochemical reactions that make delicate and reactive structures. Previously, chemists had copied high temperature geological reactions.
Whisky
16th November, 2020
There’s a lot of chemistry going on in whisky. Despite tight regulations on food hygiene, processing and labelling, we still don’t know much about the chemistry of whisky – nor how they may affect us.
