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1. ACS celebrates its 2021 Heroes of Chemistry: An award story highlighting advancements in chemistry, most of them pharmaceutical-related
2. Louise Slade, food scientist, dies at 74: An obituary honoring Louise Slade, a pioneer of food science
3. Jack Dunitz, crystallography pioneer, dies at 98: An obituary honoring Jack Dunitz, a pioneer of crystallography
4. A puzzling parachute, and epistles exposed: A father-son duo cracks the code to an encouraging message that mission engineers had sewn into Perseverance's parachute. Plus, researchers virtually unfold a trove of locked letters
5. Modern tools characterize corpses and sequence sacred texts: Researchers use protein sampling to explore a mummy's cause of death and sequence parchment from the Dead Sea Scrolls