News – Page 27
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NewsUK’s autumn budget receives mixed response from science and education sectors
R&D spending is protected, but university budgets will be impacted by national insurance hikes
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ResearchMineral-extracting microorganism could solve early Earth’s nitrogen-fixing mystery
Ancient microorganisms could have extracted vital nitrogen compounds using molybdenum mined from rocks
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ResearchNew spectroscopy method maps out water’s hydrogen-bonded network
Technique can be used to study other liquids and amorphous materials
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BusinessSanofi spins out its consumer healthcare business
US-based investment firm takes controlling stake in Opella, while France’s government moves to ensure the company remains in the country
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NewsAre Indian higher education institutes gaming the ranking system?
Concerns continue to be raised about students being misled by the Indian government’s flagship scheme
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NewsNobel prize winners far more likely to come from wealthy families highlighting inequality in the sciences
Winners today come, on average, from less wealthy families than when the prize began but there is still a long way to go
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ResearchGraphene oxide sponge soaks up gold from electronic waste
Composite many times more effective at capturing gold than existing materials
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NewsNobel prize-winning scientists mobilise for Kamala Harris
82 Nobel laureates warn of the threat Donald Trump poses to science, climate and living standards
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NewsThousands of published studies may contain images with incorrect copyright licences
Questions raised over copyright licence that covers images created using scientific illustration service Biorender
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NewsChemist found to have falsified data in 42 papers has notched up 13 retractions so far
Investigating committee at Japanese institute found senior scientist Naohiro Kameta solely responsible for the misconduct
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ResearchFoaming bioplastic breaks down in seawater four times faster than paper
Highly porous cellulose diacetate polymer could be a packaging alternative
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NewsOpen letter from fraud sleuths raises concerns over research integrity at Scientific Reports
Springer Nature singled out over ‘seriously flawed’ peer review in journal
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ResearchCinchona plant alkaloid catalyst subtracts hydrogen to invert alcohols’ chirality
Blue light desymmetrisation of diols holds promise for drug synthesis
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BusinessCarbon capture making slow progress in UK and Europe
Government funding welcomed, but issues over strategy and CO2 purity persist
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ResearchMicrobubbles activate C–H bonds, converting methane into ethane and formic acid
Inside-out microdroplets induce oxidation reaction
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ResearchMeteorite 200 times larger than one that killed dinosaurs reset early life
Counterintuitively, impact brought benefits too by providing microorganisms with iron and phosphorus
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NewsPerseverance rover’s discovery of organics on Mars could be illusory
Hopes that compounds were sign of prebiotic chemistry or even ancient life may be result of instrument limitations
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ResearchDirecting group facilitates catalytic breakdown of high-performance polymer
Polymer maintains strength during regular use but selectively breaks down when exposed to a nickel catalyst
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NewsArgentina’s researchers face continued catastrophe under Javier Milei
The president of Argentina, who has been in office less than a year, has continued cuts to higher education and science budgets
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ResearchNew database unlocks predictive power of radical polarity
Resource could help reduce trial and error in synthesis