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Organisations work towards making billions of doses of products not yet proven to work

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Chemistry’s reproducibility crisis that you’ve probably never heard of

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Legacy issues are posing important questions for scientific software developers

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The race to develop a vaccine is almost six months old. Who’s in the lead?

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EU science programme will be hurt by Brexit but will survive

2020-07-02T08:30:00+01:00

Network analysis suggests excellent science pillar of Horizon framework will be hardest hit 

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Roadmap plans route out of pandemic purgatory for UK research

2020-07-02T13:54:00+01:00

Ambition applauded by science community but researchers yet to be sold on its substance

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Fears that US clampdown on student visas will hamstring nation’s research

2020-07-01T13:30:00+01:00

The country’s universities could suffer if restrictions aren’t eased soon

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CRUK warns of £150m cut to research funding

2020-06-30T13:37:00+01:00

Charity calls for government support as coronavirus hits fundraising efforts

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Does tweeting about research attract more citations?

2020-06-26T08:30:00+01:00

Maybe a little, but don’t count on it  

Research

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Mechanical force used to trigger isomerisation in 3D molecule

2020-07-03T08:30:00+01:00

An atomically sharp scanning tunnelling microscope tip has been used to control the isomerisation of a butterfly-shaped compound

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Bright blue radical lives on for months in chicken feed and urea solution

2020-07-01T08:30:00+01:00

Deep eutectic solvents can tame methyl viologen radical used in self-dimming windows

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Computational method challenges NMR metabolomics dogma

2020-06-30T13:34:00+01:00

Macromolecule signal suppression without the loss of quantitative small molecule information finally achieved with mathematical trick

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Unnatural reaction benefits from computational tool that teaches an old enzyme new tricks

2020-06-29T13:16:00+01:00

Method could generate artificial enzymes that are more suitable for directed evolution

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Ultrasound makes nano-waves, generating ‘green’ radicals

2020-06-25T14:07:00+01:00

Chemical engineers use high-frequency soundwaves to dissociate water without catalysts or electrolytes

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Alice Ball’s treatment for leprosy

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Eunice Foote: the mother of climate change

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Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements

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The indomitable Toshiko Mayeda

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There are natural metalloenzymes that make difficult chemistry look easy. James Mitchell Crow talks to the bioinorganic chemists figuring out how to copy them

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Nina Notman explores the role technology can play in cleaning pollutants out of air before we breathe them in

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The difficulties of drugging our brains

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Following the withdrawal of many large pharma companies from central nervous system research, Andy Extance finds new drug development patterns are emerging 

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The Chemists’ Community Fund – formerly the Benevolent Fund – has been helping people for 100 years. Rachel Brazil looks at how it works, now it may be more needed than ever before

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