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From affordability to innovation, lab-grown diamonds are reshaping fine jewelry as we know it. Here's everything you need to know if you're looking to invest in lab-grown diamond alternatives.

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UCLA chemists proved that some of chemistry’s oldest rules can be broken—and new molecules emerge when they are.

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Groundwater hides dense communities of rock-bound microbes that shape water quality and help store carbon below ground.

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INTA, using modeling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, has uncovered an unprecedented richness of small ...

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