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A person wearing white work gloves striking a match on a light brown surface against a blue background.

Making a perfect match

By Theodore Gray

A person purifying silicon in a glass bowl. Top: burning magnesium in a mushroom cloud of white smoke; middle top: burning hydrogen as a flame; middle bottom: burning silane gas as white bursts; bottom: falling silicon particles.

Making silicon from sand

By Theodore Gray

A person opening a large photo album that's also a computer screen. Illustration.

Share your shots

By Mikkel Aaland

Car H2.0, Where Are You?

A man wearing black headphones and a black t-shirt sitting in front of a silver Macbook laptop with his elbows on the table and his hands clasped in front of his mouth, looking concerned.

Deep-sixing spam

By Andrew Zolli