News – Page 146
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Research
Bright blue radical lives on for months in chicken feed and urea solution
Deep eutectic solvents can tame methyl viologen radical used in self-dimming windows
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CRUK warns of £150m cut to research funding
Charity calls for government support as coronavirus hits fundraising efforts
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Research
Computational method challenges NMR metabolomics dogma
Macromolecule signal suppression without the loss of quantitative small molecule information finally achieved with mathematical trick
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News
Explainer: how is the vaccine pipeline for Covid-19 looking?
The race to develop a vaccine is almost six months old. Who’s in the lead?
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Unnatural reaction benefits from computational tool that teaches an old enzyme new tricks
Method could generate artificial enzymes that are more suitable for directed evolution
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Ultrasound makes nano-waves, generating ‘green’ radicals
Chemical engineers use high-frequency soundwaves to dissociate water without catalysts or electrolytes
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Covid-19 is forcing pharma to rethink clinical trials
Drug trials have become a casualty of Covid-19, but the pandemic is also prompting change
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‘Godzilla’s gym socks’ molecules' stench tamed by halogen bond
Russian researchers have found a way to eliminate the odour of some of the worst-smelling – but very useful – compounds in chemistry
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Opinion
Making the right call on dexamethasone
The way we do things in research has to change in life or death situations
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First reaction on carbon nanobelts creates largest ever iptycene
Diels-Alder reactivity signals that carbon nanobelts could be useful building blocks for large macrocyclic carbon-based structures
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Unprecedented biosynthetic transformation found to connect antibacterial polyketides from ant microbiome
Study identifies enzymes that convert flat fasamycins into three-dimensional formicamycins
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Business
Dramatic job cuts at BP and Johnson Matthey
Coronavirus pandemic catalyses shift away from oil
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Research
Microfluidic electrochemistry delivers radical coupling breakthrough
Interelectrode gap engineered so that diffusion outpaces radical decomposition
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Research
Algorithm devises synthetic contingency plans for Covid-19 drug
Retrosynthesis software tool can identify multiple synthetic routes that use inexpensive and diverse starting materials while avoiding patented methods
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Research
Beautiful molecules ring up with a purpose
How Stephen Goldup used his experience in organic synthesis to find a supramolecular niche
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News
More support needed at US universities to stop minorities leaving science
University association issues guidance to help improve Stem faculty diversity
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Research
Drone blows clouds of pollen laden bubbles that could help farmers out
Automated bubble-firing drones could pollinate crops when insects numbers are down
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Caution urged as scientists await results of trial that finds steroid cuts Covid-19 deaths
Claims that 60-year-old drug dexamethasone dramatically lowers fatality rate of seriously ill Covid-19 patients await peer review
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Research
Solvated electrons’ metallic transition resolved with spectroscopy
First photoelectron spectra of electrolyte-to-metal transition in ammoniated electrons could lead to metallic water