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Funder will spend £481 million over three years to support cutting edge science including 1.2GHz NMR and Diamond synchrotron upgrade

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Regulator lowers advisory drinking water levels for two best known PFAS by five orders of magnitude

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Polish billionaire bought French mansion once owned by Marie Skłodowska–Curie and Pierre Curie, and has plans to convert it into a space for women

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Annette Doherty elected next president of the Royal Society of Chemistry

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Question marks over cannabidiol’s safety in food, European agency finds

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Food safety body has already received more than 150 applications to add CBD to food products

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White male scientists have privileges that boost their career beyond merit

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Survey of 25,000 scientists reveals white able-bodied heterosexual men’s advantages can’t be attributed to higher work effort or better qualifications

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Light-activated cancer treatment uses tumour-targeting enzymes to cut side effects

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Enzymatic activation of a photosensitive prodrug in cancerous cells shows promise in mice

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Polyatomic molecule cooled to almost absolute zero

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Ultracold calcium monohydroxide created in magneto-optical trap

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Carbon fragment’s five atom walk in unprecedented rearrangement reaction

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Reaction discovered by accident is a rare case of a room temperature [1,5] carbon shift

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Spider webs record severity of microplastic pollution in cities

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Plastic content found to make up as much as a tenth of a web’s total weight

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  • Jim West’s marvellous microphone

  • Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier the invisible assistant

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