News – Page 210
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BusinessJ&J and the question of shadow research
Former academic researcher who found that talc is not carcinogenic admits that J&J funded his work, but says that fact is immaterial
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NewsExplainer: the carbon dioxide crisis
Low stocks of carbon dioxide are causing problems for the food industry. So what’s really going on?
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NewsHobby chemists fall foul of YouTube's content purge
Platform’s removal of home experiments and synthesis tutorial videos worries hobby chemists
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ResearchEnzyme survives blistering conditions to rapidly break down cellulose
Ionic liquid protects enzyme as it turns woody biomass into sugars 30 times faster than previously possible
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ResearchCatalyst converts methane to methanol at room temperature
Iron-studded graphene offers noble metal free route to important chemical feedstock
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NewsSupreme court rules Trump’s travel ban can stand
Upholding of immigration order worries research universities and science groups
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Research2D materials made in MOF factory
Polymerisation process for making phosphorus nanosheets could become model strategy for other 2D materials
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NewsWHO gears up to solve the world’s antivenom crisis
Clinical trials planned to take on scourge of substandard, untested medicines
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ResearchParasitic self-replicating molecules consume their creators
Simple chemicals display life-like behaviour
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NewsNational Academies warn of synthetic biology dangers
Promise for treating diseases and making chemicals offset by fears the field could also spawn new weapons, US committee warns
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ResearchMapping the mysteries of pervoskite solar cell hysteresis
Caught on camera: interfacial stabilisation observed causing hysteresis means mobile ion migration is off the hook
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ResearchAI teaches itself to identify materials – and predict new ones too
Neural network trained up on 50,000 crystal structures shows promise rapidly navigating chemical element combinations
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ResearchFour step route to carbotricycles
Elegant strategy that directly assembles 5–8–5 scaffolds from simple precursors paves way to a new library of bioactive compounds
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ResearchLaser spectroscopy offers first glimpse at nobelium nuclei
Adapted technique offers experimental insights to theorists studying superheavy elements
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NewsChemists criticise mooted shutdown of 3D visualisation tools
End of support for Apple’s OpenGL programming interface could pull the plug on molecular modelling software
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News£20 million UK fund to clean up plastics production
Money will help tackle environmental problems caused by plastics
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BusinessGene therapy gathers pace
Sarah Houlton charts the evolution, challenges and opportunities of cell and gene therapy
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ResearchDrastically different mechanical properties from the same compound
4-bromophenyl 4-bromobenzoate can be plastic, elastic or brittle
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BusinessUbe’s management pays for lax quality checks
Japanese chemical maker announces that ‘quality-related improprieties’ were detected in 24 of its products, including low-density polyethylene
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ResearchConfined reaction speeds up water formation
Trapping hydrogen and oxygen on a catalytic surface lowers the activation energy of the reaction between them