News – Page 141
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ResearchViewpoint shift designs drug binding proteins from scratch
New method focuses on the groups touching amino acid side chains
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ResearchHydrogen bonds join forces to maximise water–water interaction
Cooperative environment encourages stronger chemistry
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NewsChemists welcome India’s new education policy’s focus on interdisciplinary learning
Policy wins backing from academics but concerns remain around funding and implementation
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ResearchMolecular state switching technique offers insight into reactions’ complexity
New technique offers exceptional chemical control
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ResearchAntiaromaticity relief mechanism linked to DNA photostability
Textbook organic chemistry concepts bring new understanding to protective biological mechanisms
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NewsRussian opposition leader was poisoned with Novichok agent
German chancellor Angela Merkel says Russia has ‘serious questions’ to answer after tests confirm presence of nerve agent in Alexei Navalny’s bloodstream
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NewsPFAS incineration study cancelled by US environment agency
Head of the Environmental Protection Agency blames move on former employee
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NewsUS science Nobel laureates back Biden in presidential race
Eighty-one US Nobel prize winners, including 24 in chemistry, are publicly supporting Biden over Trump
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ResearchAluminium–nitrogen batteries offer alternative ammonia synthesis
Battery simultaneously stores energy and harnesses nitrogen to produce aluminium nitride
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ResearchSimulation says supercritical water has no hydrogen bonds
Computational approach seeks to clarify bonding confusion
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BusinessDrop in plasma donations hits immunoglobulin supply
Lockdown and social distancing have discouraged donors, and the potential impact of convalescent plasma collection for Covid-19 treatment is unclear
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ResearchNoble metals dissolved without aqua regia
Decades-old study inspires acidic salt solutions for recovering gold and platinum group metals from catalytic waste
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ResearchLargest hollow cage molecule yet made from 1000 atoms
Giant polyoxymetalate cluster contains 240 molybdenum, 740 oxygen and 20 sulfur atoms
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NewsChina has 600 outposts across the world to recruit scientists
Report claims to have uncovered network to acquire advanced technology in not only the US, but also Germany, Australia, the UK and beyond
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ResearchOptions expanded for origin of Earth’s water
Enstatite chondrite meteroites contain enough hydrogen to have supplied three to five times the total mass of water in Earth’s oceans
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BusinessUncovering the sources of contaminated sanitisers
Methanol and 1-propanol could get into hand gels by unintentional or deliberate adulteration
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ResearchSour beer compounds tracked during brewing process
Chemists partner with a California brewery to elucidate the complex flavours in tart beers
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ResearchIBM seeks to simplify robotic chemistry
RoboRXN system extends AI approach to extracting and checking chemistry information from patent literature to programming automation
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NewsEuropean Synchrotron’s new x-rays shine 100 times brighter
Extremely Brilliant Source, which took €150 million and 20 months to build, has already been used for Covid-19 research
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ResearchOpen-air performance for atom transfer radical polymerisation
Sodium pyruvate plays a lead role by regenerating the catalyst and scavenging hydrogen peroxide