Calls for more funding to equip labs and hire research students and staff at top chemistry institute
Most microplastic studies on commercially-important fishery species come from Europe, Asia and South America
Daniel Liu is youngest ever member of Melanie Sanford’s group
A third of speakers and chairs at conferences funded by the society will have to be women in 2020
The companies trying to capture atmospheric carbon and transform it to hydrocarbons using green energy
Citizen science project improves understanding of protein misfolding disorders like Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s diseases
If the UK left Horizon Europe an extra £1.5 billion per year would be needed to make up the shortfall
But only 56% of research is published by these top publishers
Aluminium oxide films could find use in flexible electronics and durable batteries if manufacturing problems can be overcome
Theoretical ‘photonic reagent’ could highlight enantiomers for simple separation
Porphyrin structure makes it easier to perform selective reactions on fullerene substrates
Study puts a number on the cost in time and money
Sentiment in tweets shows controversial events such as creation of gene-edited babies is worrying people
Singh brothers accused of misappropriation, as well as not paying previous fines relating to Ranbaxy’s takeover by Daiichi Sankyo
Database bias introduced major error in a now retracted study on Crispr babies’ mortality
Chemical shift-calculating bug casts doubt on studies ranging from natural product discovery to biosynthesis
Government plans transformative research body based on US’s Arpa to deliver new technologies
More and more charities are investing in companies, and looking for returns on that investment, as an alternative to traditional grants
After ranitidine recalls, EU regulators instruct companies to review all their products for potential impurities
Bipartisan report says that abuse of government science has reached record levels
Study tracked 336 graduate students for four years examining written work
The 2019 Nobel prize was awarded to pioneers of rechargeable battery tech – here’s what you need to know
William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza win prize for unravelling how cells sense and adapt to the life-sustaining gas
Analysis of bioscience journals reveals peer review does introduce more discussion of studies’ limitations
Treatments designed to stop amyloid peptide formation all seem to cause cognitive impairment rather than prevent it
Facebook teams up with fact checkers to tackle its science misinformation problem – but is it working?
