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A Novel Method For Producing MDMA From Moskachan A

Theoretical chemistry is tremendous fun. It can be a wonderful intellectual challenge. MDMA is a fantastic ChemGolf target because, like most phenethylamines, the production routes are well-known and internationally-controlled at global and local level. Can we theoretically find a way to produce MDMA which gets around the precursor blacklists as

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High-Potency Super-Cocaines: The Nightmare Yet To Come

You've heard of Fentanyl, Cathinone "legal highs", and artificial Cannabinoids. What you may not have heard of, are the ultra-powerful artificial cocaines. The first two are over 1000 times more powerful, respectively. There's never been a list of these, until now. Whatever the legality and morality of central nervous stimulants,

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Nature's Herbarium Pharmacopeia: Strange Psychedelic Plants

Mother Nature's pantry is bursting with electrochemical wonder. Thousands of psychedelic plants have been catalogued by chemists and botanists. As miniature laboratories, they produce molecules of such staggering complexity, its often hard to believe your eyes. It can be hard to find a reference source or encyclopaedia index where you

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How To Build A Nuclear Weapon

Who hasn't dreamed of constructing a massive atomic bomb in their own underground lair somewhere in the mountains? Well, first you need to understand the theory and mechanics of how atoms destroy entire cities. For more, a great read is Weapons of Tomorrow by Brian Beckett (Plenum Press, 1983). Atoms

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Can We Turn Sargassum Blooms Into An Agricultural Crop?

It's brown, and ugly, it's smelly, and it ruins vacations to the Caribbean. It destroys the tourism local people need to feed their families. Thousands of tonnes of this crap collect for hundreds of miles into blooms which block the beaches of at least twenty countries. And nobody's figured out

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Using AI To Theorise New Ways Of Manufacturing Illegal Drugs And Their Antidotes

Can machine learning models come up with new ways to manufacture methamphetamine, MDMA, or even cocaine? Can we circumvent analog laws and precursor bans? Five months ago, we examined how AI tech could be use to generate new psychedelics. But what about new ways to do old things? The US

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A Sci-Fi Future Of Small Modular Liquid Fluoride Thorium Molten Salt Reactors

We are paying the price of the 2022 energy crisis for the failures of our politicians 30 years ago. There is no way to provide for humanity's electricity needs other than a massive and unprecedented investment in nuclear energy. There simply is no other non-hydrocarbon source which can reliably serve

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New Psychedelic Drugs With AI/Machine Learning, Using Searchable Clandestine Chemistry Data

Until the 2010s, chemists like Papa Shulgin and others had to take random guesses at new molecules in a highly-labour-intensive process which could take years. It was paper, and pen. And imagination. In the age of networking cloud computing, machine-learning (ML) can create thousands of suggestions in a matter of

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Illegal Chemistry Vol.2 - New/Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)

Alexander Shulgin died in 2014, but his legacy lives on. Breaking Bad finished, and captivated viewers in a way most producers couldn't have imagined. In the period of 2009-2017, 803 new substances of abuse had been reported onto the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) Early Warning

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The Secret Science of Illegal Chemistry

Underneath your feet there is a secret world where science itself is so threatening that it must be kept hidden. This is walk through the science of clandestine chemistry and exposes the hidden chemicals, techniques and knowledge used to produce the illegal drugs consumed by millions around the world that