News – Page 259
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Call to address gender issues in UK higher education
More women are taking degrees than men, but women remain poorly represented in STEM subjects and senior academic positions
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Lead isotopes track Roman Empire’s water supplies
Analysis reveals damage to the water network after the eruption of Vesuvius and its subsequent repair
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Honeywell spins off resins and chemicals unit
‘AdvanSix’ will separate by early 2017 and produce nylon, fertiliser and various chemical intermediates
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‘Shark jelly’ has record proton conductivity
Hydrogel that fills sharks’ electrosensing pores has the highest reported proton conductivity for a biological material
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Total to buy Saft for battery boost
€950m deal pushes French oil giant deeper into renewables
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Insider trading scandal topples head of Taiwan’s top research body
President of umbrella organisation overseeing 24 research institutions caught up in investigation into offloading of biotech shares prior to poor results
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Adenine and guanine synthesised using prebiotic pathway
Two of the nucleotide bases that make up genetic material have been formed in early Earth simulation experiments
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Extent of Massachusetts lab’s forensics failure revealed
State chemist stole from reference standards to feed a habit, raising doubts over thousands of criminal cases
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Deadly US fertiliser plant blast was deliberately set
Fire that caused West Fertilizer explosion was a ‘criminal act,’ US agency concludes
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Designer rhodium catalyst targets selected C–H bonds
Catalyst’s carbene pocket shows a preference for specific links without needing a directing group
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Dissolving bone to ease pain
Using chemistry to treat and prevent abnormal bone growths in military amputees
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‘Plastic antibodies’ in deodorant to fight body odour
Team working with L’Oréal create polymer that can capture specific compounds in sweat that bacteria turn into nasty niffs
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RCUK launches diversity action plan
Research Councils UK will consider diversity targets for make-up of councils and giving peer reviewers unconscious bias training
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Audit reveals ‘Europe’s MIT’ mired in problems
European Institute of Innovation and Technology troubled since its inception seven years ago
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Hormone injections to tackle Beijing’s catkin woes
Chinese authorities are using plant growth regulators in the fight against urban fluff
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Protein crystals stretch knowledge of exotic materials
Self-assembling protein tiles show rare property of thickening by the same amount as they are stretched by
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Evonik acquires Air Products’ chemical unit
Air Products also spinning off electronic materials to focus on industrial gases
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Australia opens £80 million nanoscience hub
University of Sydney has unveiled the country’s first purpose-built nanoscience institute
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All-metal sandwich inspires a theoretical following
Recently discovered [Sb3Au3Sb3]3– has multiple groups hunting for answers
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Rethinking herbicide regulations
Europe withdraws amitrole and isoproturon, while EU, US and Colombia reconsider glyphosate rulings