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mRNA vaccines for Covid and beyond

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Already hailed as a miracle, the new vaccine technology could protect us from other diseases, Clare Sansom finds

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Net zero strategy sets sights on slashing UK industry’s emissions by 2035

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Carbon capture and storage, nuclear and hydrogen will all play a part in making industry greener

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How organocatalysis won the Nobel prize

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Jamie Durrani tells the story of how two young upstarts, Ben List and David MacMillan, created a whole new field of catalysis

Nobel prizes 2021

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New J&J subsidiary to absorb talc lawsuit liabilities

2021-10-21T13:30:00+01:00

Firm aims to use bankruptcy protection and a $2bn trust to resolve thousands of cancer claims

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Long-anticipated plan to regulate PFAS chemicals unveiled in US

2021-10-20T13:30:00+01:00

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances face enforceable drinking water limits and require toxicity tests by industry

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Bees face a barrage of chemical and environmental burdens

2021-10-20T08:30:00+01:00

Better understanding of the combined effects of multiple stress factors could help reduce pollinator decline

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Families sue LyondellBasell over fatal chemicals leak

2021-10-19T13:25:00+01:00

Incident at acetic acid plant in La Porte, US, killed two workers in July

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New analysis puts more accurate figure on size of last year’s Beirut blast

2021-10-19T09:14:00+01:00

August 2020 explosion in Lebanon’s capital city had an explosive force of around a kiloton of TNT

Research

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Polymerisation used to synthesise 2D material inside living cells

2021-10-27T08:30:00+01:00

Sheets are larger than those cells can take up and the technique could find uses in imaging

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Meltable MOF glass made with ionic liquid

2021-10-26T13:30:00+01:00

New family of glassy porous materials can be melted and moulded into any shape

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Possible dinosaur DNA discovered in 125-million-year-old fossil

2021-10-26T08:30:00+01:00

But that doesn’t mean we can clone extinct species Jurassic Park-style

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First fundamentally new form of adsorption for more than 90 years driven by molecular machines

2021-10-25T11:26:00+01:00

Unlike physisorption and chemisorption, the newly discovered ‘mechanisorption’ is an active process that can store energy or chemicals

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Cooking oils work as solvents for metal-catalysed reactions

2021-10-22T08:52:00+01:00

Suzuki–Miyaura, Hiyama, Stille, Sonogashira and Heck cross-couplings shown to proceed with quantitative yields in certain vegetable oils, fish oil, butter and waxes

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Significant figures

Celebrating science's forgotten heroes

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The lifesaving work of Evelyn Hickmans

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Clara Immerwahr – out of her husband’s shadow

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Kathleen Culhane Lathbury – an industrial pioneer

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Mabel FitzGerald and the mystery of oxygen sensing

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Polly Porter, crystallography pioneer

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Mary Sherman Morgan: The best kept secret in the space race

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Julia Lermontova: an early pioneer

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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

  • The lifesaving work of Evelyn Hickmans

  • Clara Immerwahr – out of her husband’s shadow

  • Kathleen Culhane Lathbury – an industrial pioneer

  • Mabel FitzGerald and the mystery of oxygen sensing

  • Polly Porter, crystallography pioneer

  • Mary Sherman Morgan: The best kept secret in the space race

  • Julia Lermontova: an early pioneer

  • 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

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Four years of chemistry preprints

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Nina Notman takes stock of how preprint severs have settled into the chemistry community

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What’s wrong with research culture?

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A knotty mess of problems affects people doing academic research in the UK. Rachel Brazil tries to untie the tangle

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The name’s bond, chemical bond

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Kathryn Harkup explores the poisons – real and fictional – used in Bond films

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Experimenting in a pandemic

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Chemistry teachers have faced extraordinary challenges in preparing and running practicals in the past 18 months. Clare Sansom investigates how they have fared

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