All articles by Katrina Krämer – Page 22
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NewsJim 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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ResearchA 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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ResearchDorset 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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ResearchNanofertilisers 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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ReviewSeeds 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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ResearchChallenging mirror molecules made with stereochemistry destroying reaction
Clever catalyst repurposes classic nucleophilic substitution to make chiral quaternary carbon centres
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NewsChemistry 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
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ResearchRotten egg smell surrounds Uranus
Seventh planet’s topmost cloud layer is composed of hydrogen sulfide
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Research73 new exotic nuclei discovered at Japanese institute
Hunt for remaining 4000 predicted nuclides goes on but new technology is needed to find them all
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ResearchAnionic aluminium turns textbook knowledge on its head
First stable nucleophilic aluminium(I) compound offers new way to make aluminium–carbon bonds
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ResearchHundreds of helium compounds could be hiding in Earth’s mantle
Although it doesn’t form any bonds, the noble gas can form compounds with salts at high pressure
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ResearchIntroducing gallaarsene, the first of its kind
Molecule features rare gallium–arsenic double bond
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NewsPresentation and copyright worries keep scientists from sharing data
Almost half of researchers surveyed say they don’t know how to present data to make it useful for others
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ResearchEngineered enzymes make super strained rings
Mutated haem proteins make light work of synthesising bicyclobutanes
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ResearchMolecular cages could uncover element 114’s true chemical nature
Flerovium-capturing sulfur cages could finally reveal where in the periodic table the superheavy element belongs
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ResearchQuantum computing can go chemical with molecular qubits
Metal–organic frameworks could perform calculations to simulate molecules
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ResearchJelly implant keeps an eye on body oxygen levels
A soft hydrogel implant – the first of which has survived in the foot of its inventor for four years – could detect circulatory problems that end in amputations
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NewsGetting a better grasp of manganese to fight flu
A drug that can hold onto two metals atoms rather than just one becomes 1000 times more potent at knocking out a flu virus enzyme
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ResearchBacteria churn out a million potential protein drugs
Modified bacteria produce enormous library of macrocycles, one of which inhibits a HIV protein