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EU sets goal of tackling pharmaceutical pollution in the environment

15 March 2019

Commission identifies six areas to take action on

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New record set for the world’s smallest periodic table

14 March 2019

Table less than one fortieth the area of previous record holder is a gift for element maker Yuri Oganessian

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Leading geneticists call for worldwide moratorium on creation of gene-edited children

13 March 2019

Five-year pause would give nations breathing space following the birth of the first genetically-modified children in November

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Science would suffer under Trump’s 2020 budget

12 March 2019

White House budget proposal would deliver significant blow to US research, but Congress is expected to intervene

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Adding CBD to everything from soft drinks to cakes prompt warnings

12 March 2019

US authorities start to take action on cannabidiol additives

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UK universities need more female professors, says science minister

12 March 2019

Chris Skidmore calls on universities to take action on gender balance

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High levels of impostor syndrome found in female academics

11 March 2019

Feelings of self-doubt and being a fraud rise well above the rate of the general population

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Leap forward for molecular computing as DNA executes six-bit algorithms

20 March 2019

Computer made from DNA strands can recognise palindromes, copy and sort data, and perform random walks

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Can sodium make organic cross-couplings sustainable?

20 March 2019

Microparticle dispersions make abundant but feisty sodium safer to use as replacements for organolithium in carbon–carbon bond formation

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Bismuth gets involved in small molecule activation

20 March 2019

Reaction adds to research blurring the lines between transition metal and main group compounds

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New twist on graphene gets materials scientists hot under the collar

19 March 2019

Stacking graphene at an offset ‘magic angle’ can introduce new properties like superconductivity

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New family of peptides from extremophile show antibiotic promise

19 March 2019

Scientists isolate salinipeptins from a bacterium living in America’s Dead Sea

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Machine learning predicts ammunition from gunshot residue

18 March 2019

Forensic tool will assist investigators by turning back time on firearm chemistry

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Hole-punching antifungal used as molecular prosthesis for cystic fibrosis

15 March 2019

Drug creates artificial ion channels that could replace broken version in cystic fibrosis patients’ lung cells

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