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Detailed 3D coronavirus spike map offers hope for vaccine development

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Structure determined at ‘remarkable’ speed in little over a month

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Really random numbers created from crystals

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Robot that monitors crystallization could lead to new ways to study stochastic processes in chemistry

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Adjuvants: vaccines’ hidden helpers

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Anthony King examines a crucial part of vaccines that can significantly boost their performance, but which often go unrecognised

News

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Open data and genomics are at the forefront in battle to control coronavirus

2020-02-20T14:30:00+00:00

Efforts to tackle the virus have seen unprecedented cross-border collaboration

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Solar-powered water purification

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Majico’s photocatalytic water kiosks are increasing access to affordable drinking water in Tanzania

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Industry and academic chemistry titan John Cadogan dies

2020-02-19T09:30:00+00:00

Past president of the Royal Society of Chemistry passes away aged 89

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Number of industrial chemicals being produced globally grossly underestimated

2020-02-18T14:30:00+00:00

Analysis of national chemical inventories finds three times as many chemicals registered for production as previously thought

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Trump proposes slashing basic and applied research by 9.1% in budget

2020-02-14T14:30:00+00:00

White House requests big cuts to US science agencies but Congress is unlikely to back them

Research

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AI tool screens 107 million molecules, discovers potent new antibiotics

2020-02-21T10:10:00+00:00

Deep learning approach could help in fight against drug-resistant bacteria

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Light-harvesting clusters and titanium dioxide cooperate to fix nitrogen

2020-02-20T11:21:00+00:00

Atomically precise metal clusters continue to gather momentum by catalysing the production of ammonia

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Engineered yeast can remove heavy metals from wastewater

2020-02-18T09:20:00+00:00

Easy storage and rapid growth could see yeast compete with bacterial and chemical remediation

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New class of recyclable permanently porous liquid doesn’t need a solvent

2020-02-17T14:30:00+00:00

Coordination cages that are liquids at room temperature may find uses in catalysis, sensing or chemical separations

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Durable catalyst could enable large scale conversion of carbon dioxide to syngas

2020-02-14T09:30:00+00:00

Nanocatalysts on crystalline supports show remarkable stability producing hydrogen and carbon monoxide

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Features

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Catching the polluters

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Measurement techniques can pinpoint emitters like unroadworthy trucks and broken gas pipes, finds Andy Extance, but are not yet widespread

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The search for cancer vaccines

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Claire Jarvis looks at ongoing work to prevent the disease – and convince a sceptical community of their seriousness

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Recycling clothing the chemical way

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Nina Notman explores how chemistry is poised to close the loop in clothing recycling

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Polly Arnold’s diversity of interests

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Kit Chapman asks the champion of actinide chemistry and diversity in science what comes next as she starts her new role at a US national lab

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AI and deep learning for chemistry with Pipeline Pilot

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