News – Page 26
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NewsChatbot developers hope to make computational chemistry more accessible
AutoSolvateWeb could help undergraduates upwards simulate solvation
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BusinessJ&J’s third talc bankruptcy settlement attempt denied
Company says it will return to courts to fight talc cancer claims
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ResearchSpray-drying investigated as a speedy method for synthesising small organic molecules
Technique applied to Schiff-base condensations, Claisen–Schmidt reactions and amine acylations
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ResearchMiso fermented on the International Space Station is out of this world
Space paste had a nuttier taste than its earthly counterparts thanks to speedier chemistry
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BusinessUS regulatory chief’s resignation raises alarms in biotech industry
FDA vaccines and biologicals centre director, Peter Marks, clashed with health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr
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News‘A battle of the scientific experts’: PFAS research at centre of Texas farms lawsuit contested
Company whose fertiliser was blamed for livestock deaths shares analysis it says proves its product wasn’t to blame
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ResearchLong-chain alkanes preserved in Martian mudstone
Molecules could have derived from biological fatty acids, although abiotic origins are also possible
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ResearchCollective coupling strength must be larger than previously thought to guarantee delocalised polaritons
Findings challenge previously accepted criteria for robust delocalisation within the strong coupling regime
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NewsChemistry courses to be shut down at the University of Bradford
Closures are part of a trend seen across UK universities
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ResearchMercury-free electrochemical lithium isotope separation could fuel a fusion future
Vanadium oxide pores selectively sequester sieve lithium isotopes
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ResearchAI takes step towards cracking biology’s toughest problem – protein sequencing
The team hopes the system will eventually be as influential as AlphaFold was for protein structure prediction
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ResearchRobot ramps up accuracy of AI salt stain identifier
Database with three times as many images as before boosts accuracy of technique to almost 99%
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NewsScience silenced? Leaked EPA plan would dissolve its scientific research arm
Proposal would see 50–75% of employees fired and the rest potentially relocated
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ResearchBall milling breaks PFAS down into industrially useful fluoride source
Mechanochemistry could deal with ‘forever chemicals’
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NewsEurope offers refuge to America’s researchers
Schemes seek to attract top scientific talent from the US as Trump cuts research funding, attacks universities
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ResearchJWST reveals exoplanet composition with unprecedented clarity
Direct evidence of carbon enrichment in the planets around HR 8799 provides clues to their formation
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BusinessBayer ordered to pay more than $2 billion to US cancer victim
Jury decided glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide caused cancer, but company will appeal
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NewsFourteen universities may have manipulated institutional rankings, analysis finds
Massive increase in publication rates could point to unethical behaviour such as gift authorship
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ResearchSimple trick lets pure blue quantum dots maintain their performance without cadmium
Inserting sulfur into heavy metal-free nanocrystal lattice produced pure blue quantum dot LEDs
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Research‘Ageing’ cellular blobs could be linked to neurodegenerative diseases
Over time biomolecular condensates’ redox activity drops and tangled aggregates linked to conditions like Alzheimer’s build-up