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Atmospheric water harvesting

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With drought threatening many parts of the world, Nina Notman explores technologies for sucking water out of thin air

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Explainer: The science of Covid-19 testing

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Rapidly-deployed methods are saving lives and easing minds

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Scrambling and gambling to scale up Covid-19 medicines

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Organisations work towards making billions of doses of products not yet proven to work

News

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US environmental body ditches ban on grantees on advisory panels

2020-07-08T13:30:00+01:00

After several legal defeats, the EPA has backed down on controversial policy

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Ineos to buy BP petrochemicals businesses for $5bn

2020-07-07T14:28:00+01:00

Deal covers 14 acetyls and aromatics manufacturing plants and 10 joint ventures

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Bayer commits over $10bn to resolve legacy Monsanto lawsuits

2020-07-06T10:37:00+01:00

Agreement settles about 75% of Roundup-related cases and resolves PCB and dicamba litigation

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EU science programme will be hurt by Brexit but will survive

2020-07-02T08:30:00+01:00

Network analysis suggests excellent science pillar of Horizon framework will be hardest hit 

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Roadmap plans route out of pandemic purgatory for UK research

2020-07-02T13:54:00+01:00

Ambition applauded by science community but researchers yet to be sold on its substance

Research

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Photocatalysis in flow makes carbon bonds from nearly inert natural gases

2020-07-08T13:09:00+01:00

C–H activating methane, ethane and propane in a flow reactor shows that it’s possible to use gaseous hydrocarbons as reagents in organic synthesis

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How the products of fire control the formation of snow

2020-07-08T08:28:00+01:00

Nadine Borduas-Dedekind brings an organic chemist’s arrow-pushing insight to reactions in the atmosphere

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Light-harvesting wheel reinvented by chemists copying bacterium

2020-07-07T08:30:00+01:00

Synthetic mimic of complex at the heart of photosynthesis offers new ways to capture solar energy

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Excited state potential energy curves reignite diatomic carbon’s bond order conundrum

2020-07-07T08:11:00+01:00

Molecular orbital theory-based approach backs quadrupole bond

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New bond discovered among spodium elements zinc, cadmium and mercury

2020-07-06T13:30:00+01:00

Group 12 joins the σ-hole interaction family with spodium bonds

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Significant figures

Celebrating science's forgotten heroes

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Barbara Low, penicillin and the protein pi helix

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Alice Ball’s treatment for leprosy

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Eunice Foote: the mother of climate change

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Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements

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The indomitable Toshiko Mayeda

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Theodora Greene’s protecting groups

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Ellie Knaggs and tetrahedral carbon

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  • Alice Ball’s treatment for leprosy

  • Eunice Foote: the mother of climate change

  • Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements

  • The indomitable Toshiko Mayeda

  • Theodora Greene’s protecting groups

  • Ellie Knaggs and tetrahedral carbon

Features

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Metalloenzyme mastery

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There are natural metalloenzymes that make difficult chemistry look easy. James Mitchell Crow talks to the bioinorganic chemists figuring out how to copy them

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Clearing the air

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Nina Notman explores the role technology can play in cleaning pollutants out of air before we breathe them in

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The difficulties of drugging our brains

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Following the withdrawal of many large pharma companies from central nervous system research, Andy Extance finds new drug development patterns are emerging 

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Supporting the chemistry community

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The Chemists’ Community Fund – formerly the Benevolent Fund – has been helping people for 100 years. Rachel Brazil looks at how it works, now it may be more needed than ever before

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