All articles by Jamie Durrani – Page 9
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ResearchBurning metal to make clean energy
An unlikely sounding technology that is greener than you might think
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NewsKarolinska Institute pursues name changes to lose racist links
Home of medicine Nobel prize to rename building and two streets named after racist scientists
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FeatureHow organocatalysis won the Nobel prize
Jamie Durrani tells the story of how two young upstarts, Ben List and David MacMillan, created a whole new field of catalysis
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NewsAsymmetric organocatalysis scoops 2021 chemistry Nobel prize
Benjamin List and David MacMillan recognised for research that makes chemistry greener
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NewsHow prizes contribute to the ‘extraordinary growth’ of a scientific field
Prize-winning topics produce more papers and retain more scientists than non-prizewinning areas
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NewsNobel prize in physics goes to research on complex physical systems
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi improved our understanding of everything from atoms to Earth’s climate
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ResearchMarie Antoinette’s secret messages to Swedish count revealed by chemical analysis
Spectroscopy deciphers censored passages in 200-year-old letters between last French queen and the man rumoured to be her lover
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NewsScience behind sense of touch and temperature wins medicine Nobel prize
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian honoured for discovery of ion channels activated by temperature and mechanical force
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NewsUK to ease restrictions on gene editing in crops and livestock
Redefinition of genetically-modified organisms could see Crispr-edited foods brought to market
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ResearchDNA robot controls live cells’ movement
Molecular machine walks across cell membrane to activate cellular migration
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ResearchFirst vortex beam made entirely of atoms
Twisting atoms’ quantum mechanical wave function into a helix could reveal insights into atom–matter interactions
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NewsUK approves Europe’s first field trials of Crispr-edited wheat
Field trials will examine how low-asparagine plants fare in the field
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NewsIg Nobel for chemists who analysed the smell of cinema audiences
Meowsic, nose-unblocking orgasms and colliding pedestrians among other research topics recognised in annual award ceremony
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ResearchIsotope analysis of Vesuvius victims reveals how ancient Romans dined
Herculaneum’s men had greater access to fish, while women relied more on terrestrial animal products
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NewsLeaded petrol is finally phased out worldwide
One-hundred years after it was first developed UN hails end of an era as heavy metal is banned in fuel in Algeria
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NewsAustralian Research Council’s ban on preprints in grants prompts outcry
Move derided as ‘hopelessly outdated’ and a setback for open science by researchers
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NewsUS National Labs reach name change agreement with scholarly publishers
Simplified process for researchers to update names on papers
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NewsReliability of researcher metric the h-index is in decline
Productivity and citation impact tool is no longer an effective measure of scientific reputation, according to new analysis
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NewsChina unveils new measures to boost the number of women in science
Government announces plans to remove the career barriers women face in research