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Synthetic materials are made from natural resources. Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing the starting substances to create a material with different characteristics. Some examples of ...

Can copper be turned into gold? For centuries, alchemists pursued this dream, unaware that such a transformation requires a nuclear reaction. In contrast, graphite—the material found in pencil ...

Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain ... Their latest research, published in the journal Nature Materials, sheds light on how catalysts can stay ...