News – Page 171
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ResearchLargest molecular wheel ever made pushes limits of aromaticity rules
Giant, 162 π-electron aromatic ring shows that we haven’t reached the upper limit of Hückel’s rule yet
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NewsFuture of UK science hangs in the balance in crucial year
Promises to double funding and create new blue skies research agency sit uneasily with likelihood of crashing out of EU science programmes
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ResearchCFCs responsible for half of Arctic sea-ice loss
Halogenated compounds responsible for one third of global warming in the late 20th century
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ResearchBrake dust damages lungs as much as diesel exhaust fumes
Landmark study highlights a new avenue for air pollution research
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ResearchRhenium plays starring role in bond movie
Controllable energy input from transmission electron microscope captures atoms dissociating and recombining
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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