Magnetic levitation

Superconductivity: the search and the scandal

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Recent high profile controversies haven’t deterred scientists from searching for one of research’s ultimate prizes: room temperature superconductors. Kit Chapman reports on the claims

Drinking water

US finally gets nationwide regulation of PFAS in drinking water

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Long-awaited rule is significantly stricter and covers six PFAS, with a five-year phase in for water utilities

Flying papers

A key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk

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Japanese scientific society suspends journal publication saying it has ‘completed its role’ 

East Palestine derailment

Rail company will pay $600 million to settle East Palestine lawsuits

2024-04-12T13:30:00+01:00

Norfolk Southern reaches agreement to resolve litigation related to last year’s train derailment that spilled hazardous chemical cargo

Electron microscope

£124 million national electron microscope facility to be constructed in Cheshire

2024-04-11T08:30:00+01:00

tate-of-the-art facility will support researchers aiming to translate chemical understanding into new materials and products

Denka Performance Elastomer Plant

EPA’s clean air rule cuts chemical plant pollution

2024-04-10T13:40:00+01:00

New regulation affects about 200 facilities in the US, reducing emissions of ethylene oxide, chloroprene and three other chemicals

Petrochemical fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park, Texas

$6.6 million settlement follows 2019 fire at Texas petrochemical facility

2024-04-08T14:02:00+01:00

Site owner to pay compensation for environmental damage caused by release of hazardous chemicals during days-long fire

People on a protest march holding placards that read Defiance for Science and Scientists Strike Back

US government scientists follow academics in unionising for better conditions

2024-04-05T12:00:00+01:00

California Association of Professional Scientists joins a national trade union to boost bargaining power

Firefighting foam

PFAS levels in the environment have been significantly underestimated

2024-04-16T13:30:00+01:00

20 years’ worth of environmental samples reveal up to 80% exceed drinking water standards

Structure

Microscopy structures reveal mechanism behind bitter taste

2024-04-15T13:30:00+01:00

Cryo-EM images provide a detailed picture of bitter taste receptors

Figure

Algorithm designs proteins from scratch that can bind drugs and small molecules

2024-04-12T08:32:00+01:00

Strategy could stop an overdose or produce an antidote to a poison

Open paint tins

‘Low-VOC’ paints may still release harmful volatiles

2024-04-11T13:30:00+01:00

New analysis finds volatile compounds and potential allergens in several popular water-based paints

Ritonavir

Could mechanochemistry have saved Abbott Laboratories $250 million?

2024-04-11T13:30:00+01:00

Ball milling solves problem of disappearing ritonavir polymorph

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Oceans

The oceans’ climate challenge

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Nina Notman speaks to the researchers unpicking the many ways the climate crisis is impacting our oceans – and vice versa

Drinking water

The chemists dedicated to making drinking water safer

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Across the world, scientists use a variety of techniques to analyse and treat water to ensure it’s safe for us to drink. Julia Robinson talks to some of the people involved

Industry

Industry’s water sustainability crisis

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As the chemical industry decarbonises, will it require more water? Angeli Mehta looks at whether there is enough to go round

Space organics

The surprising organic chemistry in interstellar space

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Even in the bleak wastelands of interstellar space complex organic molecules seem to find a way to form. Anna Demming finds out how

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