News – Page 215
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NewsNew executive chair for UK physical sciences research council
University of Cambridge professor to succeed Philip Nelson at the helm of the country’s main chemistry funder
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NewsScientific trade union expands to cover all UKRI employees
Staff at all seven of the UK’s research councils are now represented by Prospect
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ResearchPlasmon chemistry sheds new light on designing photocatalysts
Quasiparticle observed getting involved in dissociation reaction
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NewsLack of ambition in Europe’s next research programme disappoints
Horizon Europe will significantly increase funding for R&D but science organisations say it’s not enough
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ResearchTuring patterned membrane takes on water purification
Mathematician Alan Turing’s sole chemistry paper inspires self-assembling spotted and striped polymer structures
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ResearchCatalytic nanomachine assembled by remote control
Chemical signalling drives eight-component system
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ResearchBrain chemistry hints at how obesity impairs antidepressants
Histamine released in response to obesity or bacterial toxins prevents benefits from SSRIs – and that drugs that target these inflammatory signals may restore them
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ResearchFuelling the hydrogen economy with straw and old newspapers
A new catalytic process converts non-food biomass into extremely pure hydrogen, ready for use in fuel cells
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ResearchAlgae lipid transformed into benzene
Efficient process derives agrochemical and pharmaceutical intermediate from renewable feedstock
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BusinessBig business computing
Chemical and oil firms are using supercomputers to improve every part of their operations. Angeli Mehta reports
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ResearchExchange of rings shows off molecular machine's clever trick
Small ring passing through a larger one is a fundamentally new motion for a rotaxane
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NewsBeetroot beats route to Alzheimer's
Betanin, the compound that gives beetroot it’s distinctive purple colour, may slow the process of protein misfolding that is linked to Alzheimer’s disease
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NewsEvidence of gender bias found in peer review
Men were more likely to secure health research grants than women in Canadian study
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NewsInternet ads for hazardous chemicals fail to display warnings
82% of adverts surveyed don’t have the required information
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ResearchMechanochemistry yields supersized nanographenes
Ball milling produces large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a matter of minutes
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ResearchAlloy takes on improbable 'negative pressure' structure
New route to create materials almost impossible to make normally
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NewsEurope to impose near-total ban on neonicotinoids
By the end of 2018 farmers in the EU will be unable to use bee-harming pesticides on outdoor crops
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NewsChemistry professor freed but still faces deportation from US
Bangladeshi chemistry instructor who spent almost two months in jail for overstaying his US visa now awaits a final deportation decision
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NewsBudget increase met with suspicion by jaded Spanish researchers
Extra funding is welcomed by scientists but many believe bureaucracy will mean much of the money will never appear
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ResearchChallenging mirror molecules made with stereochemistry destroying reaction
Clever catalyst repurposes classic nucleophilic substitution to make chiral quaternary carbon centres