News – Page 104
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ResearchShortest-lived and lightest magnesium isotope ever too unstable to even attract electrons
Magnesium-18 cation has a fleeting half-life of 3 billion trillionths of a second
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ResearchListening to quantum beats could reveal rhythm of birds’ migratory compass
Laser technique to read out oscillating spin states could help uncover how animals’ magnetic sense works
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ResearchSignificant levels of PFAS found in antifogging sprays and cloths for glasses
High levels of PFAS chemicals, including two largely unknown ones, detected in products to demist glasses that have become widely used during the pandemic
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BusinessChinese scientist admits stealing Monsanto trade secrets
Imaging scientist faces fines and prison for digital agriculture technology theft
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ResearchSingle-celled marine organism first to be found releasing oxygen in the dark
Discovery of new biological pathway in widespread archaea could transform understanding of oceans’ fertility
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ResearchCase closed on how surfactant micelles create mesopores within zeolites
Raman spectroscopy unveils key step in the formation of heterogeneous catalysts
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BusinessDaikin-America fined for safety breaches that led to worker deaths
US regulator concludes that fluorocarbon leak at Alabama plant caused two later deaths
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ResearchLow temperature method for decarbonising limestone locks carbon dioxide up as a mineral
Process could drastically cut carbon emissions associated with manufacturing cement
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NewsChemistry student among hundreds jailed following Belarus’s pro-democracy crackdown
Artsiom Bayarski’s plight mirrors that of hundreds of students and academics in the country
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NewsChemistry textbooks still portray men as scientists while women perform domestic duties
Unequal representation in terms of both roles and the number of women featured revealed
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BusinessFour dead in boiler explosion at Indian chemical plant
11 others injured as blast destroys adjacent temporary worker accommodation
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Research40-year-old mystery of why some molecules break all cyclisation rules has been solved
Molecules that blatantly violate Woodward–Hoffmann rules could lead to general theory of cyclisation in polar compounds
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ResearchGreen credentials of crystallisation process turned around by rotary cone dryer tweak
Mechanochemistry helps transformations and cocrystallisations cut solvent use on an industrial scale
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NewsScientists recognised in 2022 New Year’s Honours list
Contributions to science and the UK’s pandemic response rewarded in annual list
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BusinessWhat Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes’ conviction means for chemistry
Holmes faces up to 65 years in prison for defrauding investors while running her now defunct blood testing startup
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ResearchHeavy oil-eating microbe grown in lab for the first time
Archaeon that breaks down long alkanes into methane and carbon dioxide could be used for energy recovery from depleted oil reservoirs
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ResearchBerkelium complex opens door for future nuclear recycling
Complex is only the sixth ever created
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ResearchComets’ green colour comes from dicarbon dissociation, experiments confirm
First direct observation of C2 photodissociation explains why some comets have a green halo
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NewsHarvard chemist Charles Lieber found guilty of all charges related to Chinese research funding
Jury reach verdict on US Department of Justice case against the nanoscience pioneer within three hours