News – Page 160
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BusinessBalkan states face uphill task over environmental remediation
Abandoned chemical plants and stores pose cleanup challenges
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ResearchSynthetic strategy exploits fluxional nitrogen to deliver three chiral centres for the price of one
Innovative method amplifies chirality and complexity in medicinally relevant cyclic hydrazines
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ResearchCar exhaust fumes could be used to clean up the recovery of metals
Process could make carbon capture cheaper by providing a use for trapped CO2
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ResearchElectrolyser selectively consumes carbon dioxide in unpurified flue gas
Method tackles kinetic and thermodynamic hurdles
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Research‘Living bricks’ that can reproduce could cut construction’s carbon footprint
Bacterial biomineralisation harnessed to create building material from sand
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NewsPlane shot down by Iran had dozens of Canadian scientists on board
Canadian academic community mourns the deaths of students and colleagues
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BusinessDeadly explosion at ethylene oxide plant in Spain
Two employees killed and seven others injured at Iqoxe plant in Tarragona
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ResearchEntropy measurements can gauge health of lithium-ion batteries
Non-destructive technique for battery diagnostics
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BusinessTwo dead at US industrial tank cleaning site
Workers overcome by fumes in enclosed tanker truck
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Research‘Inside-out’ chirality discovered by chance could have been missed in many molecules
A structure assignment odyssey finds a natural product with a type of isomerism never before seen in small molecules
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ResearchMixed oxidation states expand repertoire of hypervalent iodine reagents
Iodine(iii) and iodine(v) coexist in new nitroiodoxybenzene-based oxidant
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NewsEurope sets its sights on non-stick and stain-resistant perfluorinated chemicals
EU plans to regulate these compounds as a single class, as action on them stalls in the US
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ResearchE-liquids linked to US deaths form deadly compound when vaped
Pyrolysis of vitamin E acetate creates organic molecule with effects comparable to first world war chemical weapon
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ResearchElusive water ionisation intermediate found using ultrafast x-ray pulses
H2O+ cationic hole never directly observed before
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NewsStar Chinese scientist and assistant jailed for embezzling research funds
Top researcher gets 12 years in prison for routing £3.8 million in government grants to companies he controlled
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BusinessUS bans most flavoured vaping cartridges
Cartridge-based e-cigarettes in flavours other than menthol or tobacco without regulatory approval will be removed from sale
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ResearchUranium compound unearths questions on nuclear waste
Environmental chemists place sub-surface uranium chemistry under the spotlight
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NewsHas the chemistry Nobel prize really become the biology prize?
Researchers digging into the data call for honesty and transparency on how the prize has changed over the years
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ResearchFirst atomically thin carbon may end debate on nature of amorphous materials
Images of 2D carbon rule out one of two competing theories amorphous materials’ structure
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ResearchStudy questions benefits of spending on carbon capture
Previous models failed to consider upstream carbon emissions and air pollution