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UK abandons school Covid monitoring as testing devices divide public health scientists

By Maria Burke

Scientists split over use of lateral flow tests as some fear they could actually increase spread of the coronavirus

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Biden thrills US research community with his science ‘dream team’

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The new US president has elevated the role of science in the White House

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Margarita Salas: the marquesa of molecular biology

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Hayley Bennett celebrates the Spanish biochemist who flourished during the Franco era

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Royal Society of Chemistry retracts 70 fake ‘paper mill’ articles

2021-01-20T13:30:00+00:00

Extensive investigations found systematic production of fraudulent research

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Old drugs prove their worth against Covid-19 as search continues for life-saving therapies

2021-01-19T14:55:00+00:00

Thousands of patients have now taken part in trials around the world that have helped sift hope from hype

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Can chemistry thaw the vaccine cold chain?

2021-01-19T08:42:00+00:00

Covid-19 has highlighted the challenges of storing vaccines at their proper temperature. Angeli Mehta explores how scientists are trying to protect vaccines from heat degradation

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MIT nanotechnologist arrested for hiding his ties to China

2021-01-18T15:29:00+00:00

The head of an MIT nanoengineering lab who worked at the university for decades is accused of grant fraud and faces up to 30 years in jail

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Imposters hijack journal’s peer review process to publish substandard papers

2021-01-18T09:36:00+00:00

Scammers set up fake institutional email accounts to deceive a chemistry publication’s editorial team

Research

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Nitrogen radical chemistry sees the light

2021-01-25T13:24:00+00:00

Daniele Leonori explains how his group is taking inspiration from 30-year-old chemistry to devise shorter syntheses for bioactive compounds

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Catalyst offers low temperature route to produce hydrogen

2021-01-22T09:30:00+00:00

Molybdenum carbide catalysts with low loadings of platinum can perform water–gas shift reaction at just above room temperature

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How many water molecules make a droplet?

2021-01-21T10:04:00+00:00

Water molecules behave like bulk water when surrounded by a sea of 20 others

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Colour-changing coating can diagnose damage to climbing ropes or safety equipment

2021-01-21T09:30:00+00:00

Heat and friction changes appearance of metal-based coating

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Electric fields flick the quantum-tunnelling switch in cold reactions

2021-01-20T10:14:00+00:00

Reaction kinetics affected by direction of external electric field under cryogenic conditions

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Chemistry pedagogy for a modern world

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LGBT+ inclusivity – Building a better chemistry culture

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Significant figures

Celebrating science's forgotten heroes

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Margarita Salas: the marquesa of molecular biology

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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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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

  • Margarita Salas: the marquesa of molecular biology

  • Sylvia Stoesser – the first female chemist at Dow

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

  • Stefanie Horovitz – the woman behind the isotope

  • Marguerite Perey and the last element in nature

  • Ghanaian biochemistry TV star Marian Addy

  • Barbara Low, penicillin and the protein pi helix

  • Alice Ball’s treatment for leprosy

  • Eunice Foote: the mother of climate change

  • Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements

Features

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How rubber is bouncing back

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From their colonial roots to future alternatives, Kit Chapman looks at the chemistry of natural elastomers

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2020: the year the world changed

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Andy Extance discovers how scientists around the world have responded to the pandemic, working on solutions from drugs and vaccines to hand sanitiser and PPE

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Sustainable Covid-19 protection

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Discarding our pandemic face masks could be an environmental disaster. Clare Sansom looks at the alternatives

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How does a cell know what kind of cell it should be?

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Philip Ball investigates how cells use condensed ‘blobs’ to collect the molecules involved in regulating genes

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