All articles by Angeli Mehta
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NewsWhat’s the point of the Synthetic Human Genome Project?
Why are scientists working to recreate the human genome from scratch?
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NewsWellcome backing gets project to recreate human genome from scratch off the ground
Effort to synthesise human genome will likely take decades but should provide insight into disease
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NewsAnalysis reveals ethnic minority applicants’ grant success rates still lower
Engineering and physical sciences’ review panels in UK more likely to award white researchers
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NewsGreen light for UK carbon capture projects – but will they deliver?
The country is already behind on targets to capture carbon dioxide and is playing catch up
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NewsPay increase for UKRI-funded PhD students is biggest since 2003
Postgraduate pay campaign welcomes increase but points to years of erosion of stipends
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News‘Chemistry will no longer be an exclusive club’: how AI is changing Omar Yaghi’s work
UC Berkeley’s reticular chemistry pioneer tells us about his new institute using AI to tackle climate change
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BusinessShell appeal overturns ruling enforcing faster emissions cuts
Dutch court underlines firm’s climate responsibility but rejects legally binding reduction requirement
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ResearchCarbon capture COF shows impressive ability to survive hundreds of cycles
Fast take-up and low regeneration temperatures make direct air capture promising
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BusinessCarbon capture making slow progress in UK and Europe
Government funding welcomed, but issues over strategy and CO2 purity persist
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NewsCalls to kill off the European Institute of Innovation and Technology mount
Germany’s Fraunhofer research organisation is the latest to suggest axing the institute
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BusinessOil and gas industry emissions are not on track to hit climate goals
Several big firms have rolled back their targets, saying governments need to set pace with policy
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News£124 million national electron microscope facility to be constructed in Cheshire
State-of-the-art facility will support researchers aiming to translate chemical understanding into new materials and products
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FeatureIndustry’s water sustainability crisis
As the chemical industry decarbonises, will it require more water? Angeli Mehta looks at whether there is enough to go round
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NewsThe start-ups taking on climate change by extracting carbon dioxide from the sea
Chemistry is at the heart of bold direct ocean capture plans to remove CO2 and sequester it
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NewsEU sees big role for carbon capture to meet emissions targets
Bloc forecasts that it will need to sequester around 280 million tonnes per year by 2040
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BusinessUK plans carbon emission tariffs on imports
Government is consulting on plans to prevent ‘carbon leakage’, as well as extending emissions trading scheme to 2050
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NewsPioneering ammonia-powered ship shows off a greener future for shipping at Cop28
Greener shipping on the horizon but regulations mean no port will take ships powered by ammonia yet
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NewsTwo year clean-up of Scottish beach clears radioactive material from second world war planes
Multi-million pound operation removed over 6000 particles of highly radioactive radium-226 and associated radionuclides
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NewsLow UK carbon prices ‘disincentivise’ investment in decarbonisation technology
Changes to the UK’s emissions trading scheme could damage the chances of reaching net zero
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NewsUK association to Horizon Europe still up in the air as politicking continues
Warnings that failure to associate soon will harm the country’s ability to get the most out of EU science programme