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Propofol

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Also known as ‘milk of amnesia’, propofol helps to prevent perception of pain in surgery – just don’t forget its dangerous side

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Can sustainable aviation fuels give us guilt-free flying?

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Angeli Mehta finds out if we can make jet fuel sustainably – and cheaply

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How Crispr went from niche to Nobel

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Katrina Kramer tells the story of how Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna developed the gene editing tool that won them the 2020 Nobel prize in chemistry

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Room temperature superconductivity finally claimed by mystery material

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At high pressures carbon–hydrogen–sulfur compound becomes superconducting at 15˚C

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Springer Nature and Max Planck reach landmark open access deal in Germany

2020-10-23T08:41:00+01:00

The agreement will allow authors at eligible German institutes to publish papers for fee of about £8500 each

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Peptides self-assemble to support growth of artificial tumours

2020-10-22T08:44:00+01:00

Cancer cells grown around bioengineered microfibres make an ideal model to test new chemotherapy drugs

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100 UK scientists receive more than £100 million for blue skies research

2020-10-21T14:00:00+01:00

Fourth funding round of government’s future leaders programme aims to turn scientific ideas into products and services

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First Covid-19 challenge study working with live virus planned for the UK

2020-10-20T13:52:00+01:00

Pending ethics panel approval, healthy volunteers would be infected with Sars-CoV-2 to help understand disease and test vaccines

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Stretching liquid crystals to the limit with LC AuxeTec

2020-10-20T13:24:00+01:00

The unintuitive properties of LC AuxeTec’s materials mean they thicken when stretched, and could be exploited in body armour and skyscraper windows

Research

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Plastic waste upcycled to high-value chemicals in one-pot process

2020-10-22T18:00:00+01:00

Polyethylene chains are broken down and aromatised to produce valuable alkylaromatic products

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Fast-acting insecticide polymorph could boost malaria-control efforts

2020-10-21T08:30:00+01:00

Recrystallised deltamethrin accelerates uptake in mosquitoes

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Salt bridge strategy expands access to pharmaceutical cocrystals

2020-10-20T13:27:00+01:00

New approach to cocrystallisation could lead to exciting multi-drug combinations

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Ultrafast experiments capture speed-of-light excitation delay as photon travels across H2

2020-10-20T08:28:00+01:00

Photon excites one end of the molecule first, and then the other end 247 zeptoseconds later

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Hammett equation parameters optimised for improved predictive power

2020-10-19T12:23:00+01:00

Update overcomes limitations and eliminates human biases intrinsic to the original formulation

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Barbara Low, penicillin and the protein pi helix

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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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Quantum control

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The revolutionary idea of using light as a reagent in reactions has arrived

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Unnatural selection in chemical systems

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Great strides have been made in the lab with chemical systems that ape life’s behaviour

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Homogeneous C–H activation

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In the final instalment of our grails series we look at how picking and choosing which bond to target holds the promise of transforming organic molecules at will

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Artificial photosynthesis: solar water splitting

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The chemistry to mimic ones of nature’s greatest feats still has some hurdles to overcome

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