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The professor's invention is a child-friendly introduction to the chemistry of light.

The professor’s invention is a child-friendly introduction to the chemistry of light.

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If you can see, our world can be wildly colorful. In ultraviolet light, once-familiar objects can take on a dreamlike radiance: think neon green scorpions, hot pink flying squirrels and bright blue diamond rings. Known as fluorescence, this ability of certain molecules to absorb light at a wavelength of one color and emit it at …

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At the center of the world: chemist Dal celebrates the creation of fundamental science in his discipline - Dal News

At the center of the world: chemist Dal celebrates the creation of fundamental science in his discipline – Dal News

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“Chemistry is often called the central science because it intersects with physics and biology. It’s all around us. Everything can be explained in chemistry,” says Dalhousie theoretical chemist Erin Johnson, who was named the latest recipient of the Stacey Award, one of Canada’s most prestigious awards for emerging scientists. And, if it’s all chemistry, Dr. …

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Review: Acting Chemistry Enhances (Very) Dark 'Count to Three'

Review: Acting chemistry enhances (very) dark ‘Count to Three’ | Latest news

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JOSELYN NOVEK, AP National Writer “On the Count of Three” is billed as a “dark comic film”. Well, there’s black comedy and even blacker comedy, and then there’s comedy that’s so dark that you wonder if those two words can actually coexist in the same sentence. So it’s unclear what genre to put this starkly …

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Review: Acting Chemistry Enhances (Very) Dark 'Count to Three'

Review: Acting Chemistry Enhances (Very) Dark ‘Count to Three’

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There’s black comedy, and then there’s real black comedy, and On the Count of Three is perhaps even darker. By JOSELYN NOVEK AP National Writer May 11, 2022 at 5:00 pm • 4 minutes of reading Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail this article “On the Count of Three” is billed as a “dark comic film”. …

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Review: Acting Chemistry Enhances (Very) Dark 'Count to Three'

Review: Acting Chemistry Enhances (Very) Dark ‘Count to Three’

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“On the count of three” positioned as a “dark comic” film. Well, there’s black comedy and even blacker comedy, and then there’s comedy that’s so dark that you wonder if those two words can actually coexist in the same sentence. So it’s unclear what genre to put this starkly self-confident, albeit uneven and unsettling directorial …

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Fighting the culture of toxic technology on its 10th anniversary

Fighting the culture of toxic technology on its 10th anniversary

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Ten years ago, 20 high school girls in New York sacrificed seven weeks of summer to get together in a technology company’s Flatiron Building conference room to learn the basics of computer programming. It didn’t necessarily seem like much at the time, but the experiment became Girls Who Code’s first summer program. Founded in 2012 …

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Meteorites contain the last chemical ingredients to create human DNA. Here's what we know

Meteorites contain the last chemical ingredients to create human DNA. Here’s what we know

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A new study of meteorites that have fallen in Australia, the US and Canada supports the notion that, early in Earth’s history, such objects could have delivered the chemical ingredients vital to the origin of life. Scientists have previously found three of the five chemical components needed to form DNA on meteors, and last week …

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