AccessScience: Choosing a Research Topic

TOPIC: Development of the periodic table

• Periodic table (Article)
• Chemical element (Article)
• 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table (Briefing)
• Ultrathin 2D metals get their own periodic table (News)
• Women in Chemistry: Heroes of the Periodic Table (Video)
• The Four “New” Elements and How We Got Them (Video)
• Have We Found All the Elements? (Video)
• Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (Biography)

TOPIC: Ocean acidification

• Ocean acidification (Article)
• Coral reef structural complexity (Article)
• Ocean acidification affecting fishes’ sense of smell (Briefing)
• Ocean acidification may hamper food web’s nitrogen-fixing heroes (News)
• Syukuro Manabe (Video Biography)

TOPIC: Chocolate and flavanols

• Cacao (Article)
• Cocoa powder and chocolate (Article)
• Understanding the health benefits of chocolate flavanols (Briefing)
• Five Sweet Facts About the Chemistry of Chocolate (Video)
• Milk Chocolate Versus Dark Chocolate (Video)

TOPIC: Invasive species

• Invasive species (Article)
• Invasion ecology (Article)
• Effects of invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park (Article)
• Invasive lionfish (Briefing)
• Asian longhorned tick is an invasive threat in the United States (Briefing)
• This invasive tick can clone itself and suck livestock dry (News)

TOPIC: Plastic waste pollution

• Plastic waste pollution (Briefing)
• Single-use plastic-bag alternatives (Briefing)
• Lithium-ion battery anodes produced from waste plastic bags (Briefing)
• Polymer (Article)
• This microbe makes a meal of plastic (News)
• Can Plastics Be Composted? (Video)
• How Plastic Recycling Works (Video)

TOPIC: Global climate change

• Global climate change (Article)
• Greenhouse effect (Article)
• Paleoclimatology (Article)
• Hydrological consequences of global warming (Article)
• Ocean warming (Article)
• Sea-level rise (Article)
• Deadly heat in an era of global climate change (Briefing)
• Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting fast, study shows (Briefing)
• The potential for natural climate solutions in the United States (Briefing)
• Warming’s role in extreme weather quantified (News)
• Humans are driving climate change, federal scientists say (News)
• Cow Burps Are Warming the Planet (Video)
• Syukuro Manabe (Video Biography)

TOPIC: Higgs boson

• Higgs boson (Article)
• Higgs boson detection at the LHC (Article)
• Large Hadron Collider (Article)
• Detection of the Higgs boson (Briefing) 
• An elusive Higgs boson decay has finally been spotted (Briefing) 
• Peter (Ware) Higgs (Biography) 

TOPIC: Nuclear fusion

• Nuclear fusion (Article)
• Nucleosynthesis (Article)
• Harnessing the power of nuclear fusion in tokamak reactors (Briefing) 
• Ernest Rutherford (Biography) 
• Robert D’escourt Atkinson (Biography) 

TOPIC: Supermassive black hole

• Black hole (Article)
• Searching for supermassive black hole signatures in galaxies (Article)
• Supermassive stars (Article)
• Event Horizon Telescope captures first image of a black hole (Briefing) 
• Star’s orbit of a supermassive black hole supports theory of relativity (Briefing) 
• Astronomers can’t figure out why some black holes got so big so fast (News) 
• The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last (News) 
• Martin John Rees (Biography)  
• Sandra M. Faber (Video Biography)