All articles by Jamie Durrani
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ResearchNegotiations to create a global plastic pollution treaty collapse again
Geneva meeting descends into chaos with hastily revised treaty text rejected by member states
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NewsPlastic treaty negotiations go down to the wire
Capping production and limiting use of harmful chemicals are key topics for negotiators to consider
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News‘It is so important that the people who make up that committee are not political puppets’
Policy expert Camilla Alexander-White talks to Chemistry World about the UN effort to establish a scientific panel to advise on chemicals, waste and pollution
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NewsEuropean Commission proposes massive increase in Horizon Europe budget to €175 billion
Questions remain about ‘tight connection’ to European Competitiveness Fund
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NewsAria seeks new chief as Ilan Gur steps down
After three years at the helm, Gur to step down from blue-skies research funder
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ResearchSuper-shielded carbene is stable in liquid water
Researchers claim to have validated a decades-old hypothesis formulated by Ronald Breslow by generating a carbene in an aqueous environment
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ResearchCharged droplets don’t splash when they hit a solid surface
Finding could have applications in printing and surface coatings
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NewsMolecular machines won a Nobel prize nine years ago, but we still can’t decide what one is
World authority on chemistry nomenclature aims to clean up molecular machine terminology
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BusinessEpigenetic editors enter clinical trials
New wave of precision medicines amplify or silence genes, without altering genetic code
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ResearchLong-chain alkanes preserved in Martian mudstone
Molecules could have derived from biological fatty acids, although abiotic origins are also possible
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ResearchMetal layers just a few angstroms thick display unusual electronic properties
2D metals created for first time by pressing samples between two sapphire anvils
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ResearchFive-membered bismuth ring opens up ‘a new era for aromatic compounds’
Bismuth analogue of cyclopentadiene finally isolated
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News1.2GHz NMR magnet arrives at University of Warwick
New instrument is 20% more powerful than the UK’s current largest NMR spectrometer
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NewsAtomic Energy Authority chief executive to head up UKRI
Ian Chapman to take reins at UK’s main research funder after Ottoline Leyser steps down later this year
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NewsProtests and alarm as European research sector braces for cuts
Swiss science organisations are the latest to speak up after a wave of cuts is proposed across Europe
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NewsUK visa policy ‘an act of national self-harm’, says Lords’ science committee
Inflexible and expensive visa system puts country at competitive disadvantage in global race for talent
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NewsUK ‘on a good track’ one year after rejoining Horizon Europe
Early figures suggest UK researchers are benefitting from the resumption of European research collaboration
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NewsHorizon Europe reopens to Swiss researchers after three-year hiatus
Transitional arrangement allows Swiss scientists to participate in EU research programmes once again
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BusinessUS state charges Lockhart director over river chemical release
Bankrupt firm’s leader accused of endangering the public and altering public records
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NewsComputational chemist and Nobel prize-winner Martin Karplus dies at 94
Karplus’s techniques combined classical and quantum mechanical approaches to model complex chemical systems