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Biden’s science budget for 2022 pleases US research community

2021-04-13T13:30:00+01:00

White House requests big funding increases for research agencies

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Making supercritical fluid extraction affordable with Nova Extraction

2021-04-13T08:35:00+01:00

London-based duo wants this powerful technique to be cheaper and more widely accessible

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Hole in UK science budget for Horizon Europe membership plugged

2021-04-09T08:30:00+01:00

Funding appears to have been agreed to cover association to the EU’s huge research programme

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France steps up hydrogen research with €7 billion investment

2021-04-09T08:30:00+01:00

‘Green’ hydrogen, fuel cells for vehicles and storage of the gas will all receive funding

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Bath becomes first UK university to sign green chemistry pledge

2021-04-08T13:29:00+01:00

79 institutes around the world have now agreed to focus on green principles in chemistry education

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Unstable silicon double bonds tamed in polymers made on metals

2021-04-13T08:30:00+01:00

Process could ‘open the door’ to new electronic materials

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Coffee pods and 3D printing combine to create cheap and quick Covid-19 tests

2021-04-12T13:30:00+01:00

Repurposed aluminium capsules enable a point-of-care test ideal for remote and low-income settings

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Four-electron transfer is a first for f-element chemistry

2021-04-12T13:02:00+01:00

Uranium (II) systems shown to effect reduction of azobenzene to yield a bis(imido) uranium (VI) complex

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Exoplanet’s chemical fingerprint suggest a distant birthplace

2021-04-12T08:30:00+01:00

Unexpectedly high levels of carbon on Osiris indicate an intriguing past

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New injection moulding technique allows glass to be cast in any shape

2021-04-08T18:00:00+01:00

Energy costs of producing glass can also be cut by as much as 40%

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Sylvia Stoesser – the first female chemist at Dow

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Martin Gouterman: the gay man behind the four-orbital model

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Stefanie Horovitz – the woman behind the isotope

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Marguerite Perey and the last element in nature

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Ghanaian biochemistry TV star Marian Addy

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Barbara Low, penicillin and the protein pi helix

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  • Ghanaian biochemistry TV star Marian Addy

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Nina Notman takes a snapshot of the burgeoning field of health and fitness monitoring tattoos and patches

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Getting to the root of soil nitrogen

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The farming industry’s reliance on nitrogen compounds is altering the environment, but Ian Le Guillou finds a better understanding of the interplay between plants and microbes could help to reduce the impact

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Flow chemistry surges forward

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The long-discussed technique could help make pharma manufacturing more distributed, finds Andy Extance, and create opportunities for chemists with the right skills

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