chemical

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One of the world’s biggest chemical companies aims to strike a new blow against hard-to-kill weeds that can cost farmers billions of dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

On Earth, that appears to have happened about 4.6 billion years ago, giving our planet an unusually fortunate chemical starting point.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

Fire Administration, potentially leading to a process known as thermal runaway, in which the battery ignites through a self-sustaining chemical reaction that is impossible to stop until it runs out on its own.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

Executives said it has 20 chemical and biological products in its research pipeline over the next 10 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

No one knew or understood the chemical structure of chromatin, but of the two “intimately mixed” components, proteins were vastly more familiar to biologists, vastly more versatile, and vastly more likely to be gene carriers.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee