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How AI protein structure prediction and design won the Nobel prize
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won this year’s Nobel prize in chemistry. Jamie Durrani investigates the origins of a biochemistry revolution
Explainer: Why have protein design and structure prediction won the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry?
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The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
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Physics Nobel prize goes to artificial neural networks and machine learning
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microRNA discovery wins Nobel prize in medicine
Research on tiny RNA molecules unlocked mysteries of gene regulation and cell differentiation
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The fate of Nobel prize medals
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The problem of plastic in our soils
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How AI protein structure prediction and design won the Nobel prize
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won this year’s Nobel prize in chemistry. Jamie Durrani investigates the origins of a biochemistry revolution
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The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we follow all the developments in the run-up to the awarding of chemistry’s biggest prize
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Twelve Nobel laureates tell us about winning chemistry’s biggest prize
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Beyond hydrogen bonding: new definitions for secondary bonding interactions to end confusion
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Directing group facilitates catalytic breakdown of high-performance polymer
Polymer maintains strength during regular use but selectively breaks down when exposed to a nickel catalyst
New database unlocks predictive power of radical polarity
Resource could help reduce trial and error in synthesis
Catalyst uses electricity to convert carbon dioxide into methane
Sunlight-powered device harvests lithium from salty water
Atom-swapping reaction turns furans into pyrroles
Study shows how bacterium tweaks its lipopolysaccharides to survive chill of Antarctic lake
Mechanochemistry can extract edible proteins from moor grass
Photoswitch brings energy storage and a cool efficiency boost to photovoltaics
A new gold standard in selective nitrobenzene hydrogenation
Fatal hydrogen sulfide leak at US Pemex refinery under investigation
Mexican oil company faces multiple lawsuits after gas leak killed two and injured dozens more
Adnoc to buy Covestro, continuing expansion into polymers
€15 billion deal sees Gulf oil producer looking to future growth beyond fuels
Drug companies reluctantly accept state price negotiations
Fire at US pool chemical plant releases huge chlorine plume
US approves schizophrenia drug with new mode of action
A chemist in the flower garden
California sues ExxonMobil over misleading plastic recycling claims
Blood biopsies for cancer
RSC calls on government to address lab space shortage
A high-pressure insight into the structure of water
The hydrogen-bonded network in liquid water resists compression; density increases instead arise from molecules moving into voids
Yvonne Perrie: ‘Good research culture is about being able to learn and fail without judgment’
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This year’s chemistry Nobel proves it’s hard to make predictions
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Letters: October 2024
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Lessons from a Nobel laureate teach us how to think better
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The year no one won the Nobel prize in chemistry
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Fermi’s questions and the importance of estimation
Knowing how to approximate the unknown is a much undervalued skill
Copper-catalysed carbon-heteroatom bond-forming processes
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ChemisTwin: Cloud-based analysis of NMR and IR spectra
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Purposeful simulation: Maximising impact in surface chemistry modelling
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Nobel prize in chemistry 2024: Reaction
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Yvonne Perrie: ‘Good research culture is about being able to learn and fail without judgment’
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Online archive of Humphry Davy’s notebooks opens to the public
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Women stay in science far longer than thought, study of OECD countries suggests
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How AI protein structure prediction and design won the Nobel prize
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won this year’s Nobel prize in chemistry. Jamie Durrani investigates the origins of a biochemistry revolution
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The CaSE for engagement in research
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AstraZeneca synthetic chemistry prize winner celebrates ‘culmination of a high-quality academia-industry collaboration’
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Lessons from a Nobel laureate teach us how to think better
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Broadband benchtop NMR spectroscopy: it’s more than just proton and carbon
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Purposeful simulation: Maximising impact in surface chemistry modelling
Learn how to select appropriate computational models to deliver impact in surface chemistry research – join us 12 November
ChemisTwin: Cloud-based analysis of NMR and IR spectra
Join us 8 November to discover how analytical software can support your workflow
Copper-catalysed carbon-heteroatom bond-forming processes
Explore cutting edge copper-catalysed carbon-heteroatom bond formations used in industrial applications
Driving innovation in the UK’s emerging biotechnology sector
Biotech startups and spinouts must overcome numerous challenges to get from lab to market. A new UK innovation hub aims to give this emerging sector the space, resources and expertise it needs.
Yvonne Perrie: ‘Good research culture is about being able to learn and fail without judgment’
The drug delivery expert and multidisciplinary researcher on the importance of learning from failure and how a summer in a margarine factory influenced her career
How taking part in extracurricular activities during your PhD can help you build your CV
Opportunities to take part in teaching, event organisation and outreach all develop valuable skills
Why we need public analysts
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