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Exodus of scientists from Russia has passed 50,000 since 2018 as more pack their bags to go

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Russia’s war on Ukraine and longstanding problems with underfunding and career progression are fuelling a brain drain

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Gene therapy jab offers cheap and safe way to sterilise stray cats

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Treatment could help to tackle populations of feral cats that threaten wildlife

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Chemical firms kept data on PFAS health hazards secret

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Documents suggest that DuPont and 3M had evidence of PFAS toxicity but suppressed the findings

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UK diverges from EU rules with cosmetics animal testing ban

2023-06-09T13:08:00+01:00

UK will no longer allow Reach-required animal tests intended to prove worker safety

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First draft of a global treaty to curb plastic pollution expected by November

2023-06-07T14:26:00+01:00

The first draft should lead to a legally binding international agreement, possibly by the end of 2024

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Study casts doubt on cultivated meat’s low carbon promise

2023-06-05T14:45:00+01:00

Preprint suggests that food grown from animal cells could have a global warming potential many times greater than beef

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Nobel nominations analysis reveals factors behind who won in the past

2023-06-02T08:30:00+01:00

Study suggests that human influences and organised behaviour played a greater role than numbers of nominations

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Report highlights job insecurity and mental health strain in academia

2023-06-01T09:05:00+01:00

Baseline pay and conditions compare well to other sectors for permanent staff

Research

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Lithium dendrite understanding will help unpick durability issues of solid-state batteries

2023-06-09T08:48:00+01:00

Fractures found to occur in two stages, with cracks initially occurring at pores 

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Digestion of artificial sweetener sucralose appears to create metabolite that damages DNA

2023-06-09T08:30:00+01:00

A compound formed when Splenda is consumed – and is even found in off-the-shelf sucralose – is suspected to be genotoxic

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Click chemistry with sound-induced mechanocatalysis

2023-06-08T10:41:00+01:00

Researcher behind work says they ‘could be very close to a perfect way to conduct green chemistry’

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Aromatic molecules in a galaxy far, far away

2023-06-07T09:30:00+01:00

JWST IR observations suggest star formation was rapid and uneven in early galaxy

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Mechanochemistry makes gold salts that are soluble in organic solvents

2023-06-07T08:46:00+01:00

No need for aqua regia, chlorine or mercury in this gold processing method

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Addressing anxiety – Building a better chemistry culture

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Making the moon home

The race to build a base on the moon

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Nina Notman talks to scientists helping to return humans to the moon – for good this time

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The Sun rises on perovskites

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With the first solar cells scheduled for commercial sale this year, Tim Wogan looks at the long, hard road to producing stable perovskite photovoltaics

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A new generation of materials inspired by teeth

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Ian Le Guillou finds that some of nature’s toughest structures are helping scientists to develop new fibres that could revolutionise fabrics

Battery research

Building better batteries

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The next generation of battery technologies might pack significantly more power into the electric cars and mobile devices of the future. James Mitchell Crow reports

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