Ferrocene discoverers

Fifty years since the ferrocene furore

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Only two of the discoverers of the sandwich compounds that revolutionised organometallic chemistry received the Nobel prize, leaving one very big name feeling left out. Mike Sutton traces the controversy

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Addressing the saga of nitrosamine contamination in drugs

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Scientific and regulatory progress is helping minimise the impact of mutagenic impurities

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Using DNA evidence to picture suspects

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Forensic DNA phenotyping predicts people’s appearance and reveals their ancestry, finds Andy Extance, but has some significant challenges to overcome

AMR

Antimicrobial resistance

In this special collection on antimicrobial resistance, we look at the new drug development work being done, improving the ways we all pay for the discovery process and more.

News

LEGO plants

Lego struggles to find the right chemistry to replace oil-based virgin plastics

2023-09-29T08:30:00+01:00

Danish toymaker commits to redouble efforts to produce more sustainable polymers for Lego pieces

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NIH to insist foreign partners share lab notebooks and data

2023-09-25T13:30:00+01:00

US research funder will require collaborators to give copies of lab notebooks, raw data and more by new year

UAW strikes

University of California accused of not honouring contracts negotiated following massive strike

2023-09-25T13:30:00+01:00

Months after postdocs and researchers won better pay and conditions, many of the promised benefits haven’t materialised

Dalgety Bay

Two year clean-up of Scottish beach clears radioactive material from second world war planes

2023-09-22T08:30:00+01:00

Multi-million pound operation removed over 6000 particles of highly radioactive radium-226 and associated radionuclides

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Europeans’ BPA exposure still exceeds safety threshold but levels may be starting to fall

2023-09-22T08:30:00+01:00

Europe’s environment agency finds that BPA levels in the urine of 92% of adults from 11 European nations exceeds safe limit

Research

Gene editing

’This is just the beginning’: RNA editing set to democratise viral engineering

2023-09-29T08:30:00+01:00

Crispr-based system could ease development of novel RNA therapies

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Strings that draw-up brine could help supply the world with lithium

2023-09-28T08:44:00+01:00

Concept takes lithium extraction into the third dimension away from cumbersome, slow pools of brine

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Ancient Roman glass fragment changed from green to gold over time

2023-09-27T13:30:00+01:00

Photonic crystals developed naturally on 2000-year-old artefact

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Transformation analysis reveals structural similarities in FDA-approved drugs

2023-09-26T12:38:00+01:00

Reaction informatics tools combined to create a new method for mapping chemical space

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‘Transformative’ carbonyl cross-metathesis used to synthesise alkenes

2023-09-26T08:30:00+01:00

Two new catalytic methods can produce a broad range of Z- and E-alkenes with remarkable cross-selectivity, paving the way for more efficient organic syntheses

Voice of the Royal Society of Chemistry

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Innovating for the future of sustainable labs

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Addressing anxiety – Building a better chemistry culture

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The roadmap to a sustainable future for polymers

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Themed collection: Sustainable Laboratories

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  • Addressing anxiety – Building a better chemistry culture

  • The roadmap to a sustainable future for polymers

  • Themed collection: Sustainable Laboratories

Features

Nobel medal

Do other chemistry prizes predict the Nobels?

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We’ve looked at the numbers so you don’t have to

A lake from above there is a a motor boat driving through a large swirling green algal bloom

Fighting algal blooms with chemistry

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These harmful events are the result of a complex interplay of factors, but Bárbara Pinho talks to the researchers finding out how they form and how we can stop them

AMR

The drug developers fighting the antibiotic resistance problem

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Andy Extance talks to the researchers innovating across different drug classes in the hunt to develop new treatments 

Cost of antibiotics

Who will pay for new antibiotics?

By Katrina Megget

Governments around the world are starting to consider alternative funding models and incentives for antibiotics. Katrina Megget asks if it is enough

Upcoming webinars

2023 Nobel webinar index update

Nobel prize in chemistry 2023: Reactions

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Data-driven materials innovation: where machine learning meets physics

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Using crystallographic structures & data-driven solutions to advance drug design

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Workshop: Your guide to solving complex problems by mastering Design of Experiments

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Astronomical spectroscopy: understanding the complex chemistry hidden between the stars

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  • Data-driven materials innovation: where machine learning meets physics

  • Using crystallographic structures & data-driven solutions to advance drug design

  • Workshop: Your guide to solving complex problems by mastering Design of Experiments

  • Astronomical spectroscopy: understanding the complex chemistry hidden between the stars