News – Page 13
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News
Pioneering ammonia-powered ship shows off a greener future for shipping at Cop28
Greener shipping on the horizon but regulations mean no port will take ships powered by ammonia yet
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Opinion
One year on from ChatGPT’s launch does it offer hope or hype for science?
Chatbots could help chemists but their limitations need to be understood
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Artificial intelligence could ‘revolutionise’ chemistry but researchers warn of hype
Survey of European scientists sees them stress the importance of human experts in chemical research
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Business
Pharmaceuticals roundup 2023
Regulatory and pricing reforms have topped industry agendas in 2023, while weight loss drugs surged and Covid-19 therapies waned
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Business
Chemicals roundup 2023
Chemical companies entered cost-cutting mode in a year dominated by overcapacity and slow demand
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The impact of war on Ukraine’s research sector
Almost a fifth of the country’s scientists have left since Russia’s invasion
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Research
Fast flow-chemistry set-up facilitates sulfur-fluoride click chemistry
A modular method makes the most of flow-chemistry to create click-ready reagents selectively and efficiently
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Vested interests pose threat to chemical waste and plastic pollution initiatives
Researchers warn that conflicts of interest will hinder efforts to tackle the world’s pollution crises
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Research
Superheavy elements forged in giant stellar collisions
Nuclei with mass numbers above 260 are produced in r -process events
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Landmark intellectual property ruling could offer new opportunities for chemists working with AI
UK court’s decision that an artificial neural network can be patented could have widespread ramifications
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Research
Invasive zebra mussels’ unique sticky threads unraveled
New understanding of byssal threads finds similarities with spider silk making them unlike any other mussels’
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Business
Danaher completes $5.7 billion Abcam acquisition
Deal proceeded despite significant opposition from founder and ex-chief Jonathan Milner
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News
Next major assessment of UK higher education research quality postponed until 2029
Extension follows shift to broader approach to research evaluation
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Research
High mercury levels in tropical birds in Americas blamed on gold mining
Exotic birds are the canary in the gold mine when it comes to mercury pollution and provide warning that other animals, including humans, affected
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Research
Carbon fibre plasma reactor enables extreme synthesis without compromise
Reactor can reach temperatures of 8000K without the need to choose between high temperatures or stability
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Business
Life-saving cancer gene therapy under investigation after being linked to rare secondary cancers
US drug agency examining six CAR-T therapies after reports of T-cell malignancies
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Research
Biocatalysis breakthrough enables synthesis of lactam building blocks for drugs
Enzymatic cyclisation of oxazolone reagents offers a cheap and simple route to important antibiotic precursor
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News
Disability landscape report highlights barriers still facing disabled chemists
Royal Society of Chemistry analysis reveals persistent underrepresentation within the chemical sciences
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Research
‘Dolomite problem’ that has puzzled scientists for centuries may have finally been solved
Solution helps to explain the mystery of why common mineral won’t crystallise in the lab
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Research
Machine learning tool fed red wines’ chemical profiles can deduce where they’re from
Statistical tool matches wines to their estates with 100% accuracy