All articles by Katrina Krämer – Page 21
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Hobby chemists fall foul of YouTube's content purge
Platform’s removal of home experiments and synthesis tutorial videos worries hobby chemists
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Research
Three negative charges crammed onto carbons in a single molecule
The first organic tricarbanion pushes the number of negative charges in one molecule to its limits
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First atomic images of mysterious ocean carbon
Atomic force microscopy reveals structures of deep ocean’s organic compounds
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New life sciences institute wants to make drug discovery 10 times more efficient
The UK’s £103 million Rosalind Franklin Institute will unite robotics, chemistry and biophysics to generate drug candidates within weeks
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Noble gas’s days of fixed atomic weight argon
Chemistry’s standardisation body introduces atomic weight interval for argon and updates weights of another 13 elements
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Feature
Oil spill cleanup
Is the cure worse than the disease? Katrina Krämer looks at the new alternatives to traditional dispersants and surfactants
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Research
Methane dunes at Pluto's heart
Heart-shaped region on the dwarf planet’s surface features dunes made out of solid methane
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Robots explore chemistry’s dark spaces
Thousands of nanoscale experiments create map of reactions that don’t work
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Hydrogel goes for a stroll
3D printed hydrogel figurine walks back and forth in electric field
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Japanese chemical society elects first female president
Chemical Society of Japan’s new president Maki Kawai will focus on international and interdisciplinary collaborations
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Research
First new form of isomerism discovered in 50 years will be the last
Porphyrin–boron compounds have revealed a curious form of molecular chirality based on hindered bond angle inversion
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£20 million for NMR upgrade at eight UK universities
Funding boost includes cash for two ultra-powerful 1GHz machines
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Jim Ratcliffe, head of UK chemical giant Ineos, tops Sunday Times rich list
A net worth of more than £21 billion makes chemical engineer UK’s richest person
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Research
A galaxy far, far away holds oldest oxygen ever seen
Oxygen discovered 13 billion light years away hints at earliest star formation after big bang
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Dorset geology gives clues to past life on Mars
Fossilised microorganisms at England’s south coast offer clues to those studying the red planet
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Nanofertilisers have huge potential but studies suffer from severe shortcomings
Nanosize agrochemicals promise to boost crop yields but experiments are often inconsistent and unrealistic, analysis reveals
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Review
Seeds of science: why we got it so wrong on GMOs
Katrina Kramer reviews the story of one man’s journey from activist to advocate
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Research
Challenging mirror molecules made with stereochemistry destroying reaction
Clever catalyst repurposes classic nucleophilic substitution to make chiral quaternary carbon centres
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Chemistry students with advisers of same gender more likely to succeed
Women with female PhD supervisors publish more papers and are 50% more likely to become academics than those with male advisers