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NewsMedicine Nobel prize rewards discovery of cells’ oxygen sensing machinery
William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza win prize for unravelling how cells sense and adapt to the life-sustaining gas
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Article
The data behind the Nobel prizes
We’ve looked at over 100 years of data behind who and what wins the Nobel prize
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Article
Chromium: Lust for colour
Van Gogh’s yellow sunflowers owe a debt to Louis Vaquelin, the chemist who discovered the element chromium
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News
Fact checkers take up the fight against fake science on Facebook
Facebook teams up with fact checkers to tackle its science misinformation problem – but is it working?
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Opinion
Richard Henderson: ‘I rejected the phone call, and then noticed it was from Sweden…’
The 2017 laureate tells his story
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Puzzle
On the spot: pocketful of trouble
What would you do if you found a mystery substance in your lab coat pocket?
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Research
Bronze age tin from Israeli shipwrecks was mined in Britain
Isotope analysis matches metal to mines in Devon and Cornwall suggesting ancient trade route existed
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News
Head of UK’s overarching research body to step down
Mark Walport, who led the creation of UK Research and Innvoation, will retire in 2020
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News
Inspired guesswork goes up against number crunching for Nobel predictions
Analysis of highly cited papers favours biochemistry while polls champion Crispr, lithium-ion batteries and MOFs
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News
1% of chemicals end up on benches in undergrad labs
First effort to quantify spillages points way to improving chemical handling
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Review
The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things and How to Make Wiser Decisions
An urgent and compelling case for self-reflection
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Research
’Blackest black’ ever made is 10 times darker than previous record holder
Serendipitous discovery produces darkest material in existence using carbon nanotubes
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News
Work on how much saliva a five-year-old makes wins chemistry Ig Nobel
This year’s Ig Nobels reward research on spit, scrotums and cockroaches, among other things
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News
Deaths from vaping-linked lung disease in US connected to vitamin E additive
Tocopheryl acetate implicated in 380 cases of severe lung disease and six deaths
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News
Science really does advance one funeral at a time, study suggests
The death of a scientific superstar can open up a field
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Podcast
Book Club – The Chemical Detective
Fiona Erskine combines chemistry and conspiracy in a fast-paced thriller that takes in Chernobyl and Slovenia
