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Perseverance rover’s suite of chemical tools will search for signs of ancient life on Mars

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Upgraded probe is better equipped to investigate the red planet

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Marguerite Perey and the last element in nature

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Kit Chapman tells the story of the chemist who discovered francium, but was almost denied the credit

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Blow to open access Plan S as European Research Council withdraws

2020-08-07T08:30:00+01:00

Disagreements over hybrid publishing caused research funder to part ways with coalition

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Paracetamol, ibuprofen and other painkillers may harm those suffering from chronic pain

2020-08-06T08:36:00+01:00

Opioids and benzodiazepines should also be avoided in favour of non-drug therapies for treating chronic pain, recommends UK clinical practice body

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Research excellence framework resumes after four month hiatus

2020-08-05T13:28:00+01:00

New timetable and guidance released following coronavirus shut down

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French mathematician returns as interim European Research Council president

2020-07-30T14:09:00+01:00

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon takes the reins after previous head’s acrimonious departure

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Explainer: What is quantum tunnelling?

2020-07-30T08:31:00+01:00

Welcome to a weird world where reactions that ought to be impossible occur regularly

Research

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How does hair blunt steel blades?

2020-08-06T18:00:00+01:00

Electron microscopy reveals how hairs chip and crack stainless steel blades while shaving

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Translating snail venom research from beach to bench and beyond

2020-08-06T13:44:00+01:00

Meet Mandë Holford, an interdisciplinary scientist following tangents that arise when exploring the molecular-level workings of venom peptides

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Knotted molecules can transfer chirality from the nano to the macroscale

2020-08-06T13:30:00+01:00

Simply unknotting a molecule added to liquid crystals can invert their chirality

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Rare trehalulose sugar found in stingless bee’s honey

2020-08-06T08:30:00+01:00

Stingless bee honey could be beneficial for diabetes patients as our body digests trehalulose more slowly than sucrose

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Smart stirrer bar monitors while it mixes

2020-08-04T11:30:00+01:00

$20 stirrer can send real-time reaction data to your smartphone

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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

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The indomitable Toshiko Mayeda

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Theodora Greene’s protecting groups

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The function of folding

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Can chemists make molecules that fold up as well as proteins? Rachel Brazil talks to the people trying to create foldamers

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The complex chemistry of fire

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Despite its ubiquity in human life, chemists have still barely unlocked what’s happening amid the flames. Kit Chapman reports

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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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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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