Defence and military
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NewsDarpa wants to genetically engineer soldiers’ skin bacteria to protect them from mosquitoes
Pentagon programme aims to change chemical cues released by human skin microbes to provide a long-term defence from mosquito-borne diseases
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NewsUS agencies address foreign recruitment threats
Amid calls to protect the IP of American research universities and labs, US Department of Energy clamps down on foreign recruitment efforts
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PodcastCacodyl
It made Robert Bunsen seriously ill, Michael Faraday thought it 'barbaric' to use in battle and even Fritz Haber – the 'father of chemical warfare' – abandoned it after a fatal accident in his lab. This week, Mike Freemantle tells the story of tetramethyldiarsine, otherwise known as cacodyl.
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NewsChemist’s rescue mission saved doctoral student trapped in Isis war zone
Lund University analytical chemistry professor hired mercenaries to free her PhD student and his family from Islamic State territory
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PodcastLow-background steel
Post-nuclear steel is a little bit radioactive, so for some specialist jobs we need to find a source of steel from before the bomb
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NewsScientists must be alert to misuse of their work for chemical weapons
Call made to tighten rules defining legitimate use of chemicals and bans on certain new classes of them
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NewsUS military wants AI to discover new molecules for it
Defence research agency launches project to optimise unknown molecule discovery to protect against threats
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NewsPentagon’s pursuit of insect-delivered genetic modification of crops prompts warnings
French and German scientists worry that Darpa programme may violate the biological weapons convention and inadvertently start a new arms race
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NewsKey suspects identified in Novichok nerve agent poisonings
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons backs UK finding that the same Novichok agent was responsible for Amesbury and Salisbury incidents
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ResearchNerve agents destroyed by self-powering enzyme nanobot
Pumping action of tethered organophosphorus acid anhydrase as it breaks up sarin and Soman is used to release antidote
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