News – Page 307
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ResearchArtificial leaf puts photosynthesis in the shade
Alloy–bacteria hybrid device can split water and produce liquid fuels
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NewsUnreported sources of sulfur dioxide emissions found
Satellite data highlights 39 ‘unreported and major’ man-made sources of sulfur dioxide
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NewsFrance backpedals on last minute research budget cuts
Hollande cancels part of an unexpected cut to 2016 research and education budgets after outrage from science community
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BusinessJ&J to buy Vogue for haircare range
$3.3bn deal expands Johnson & Johnson’s consumer products segment
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ResearchError bar estimates offer DFT sanity check
New molecule-based method makes it easier to assess the precision of reactivity calculations
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ResearchZero-valent beryllium in its molecular element
Transition-metal-like complexes with a Be(0) centre have been synthesised for the first time
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ResearchTutankhamun’s burial dagger is ‘extra-terrestrial’ in origin
Analysis of the iron in the 3000-year-old mummy’s dagger suggests it originally came from a meteorite
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NewsEnquiry highlights ‘missing’ UK government research
Science group calls for a central database to improve public access to government-commissioned reports
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ResearchConnections in flow
MIT’s Klavs Jensen tells us how his research ranges in size from a chip, to a fridge to a shipping container
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NewsToxic legacy of Agent Orange lives on in Vietnam
Scientists are struggling to clean up dioxin-contaminated soil that has been linked to devastating illnesses among thousands of people
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BusinessVertellus enters bankruptcy
Chemical maker files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its US operations and plans to auction the business
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NewsEU leaders agree ambitious 2020 open access target
A group of science ministers from member states say all new papers published by 2020 should be open access
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NewsArgentina’s science surge
Science budgets in Argentina have jumped 10-fold since the country’s first science minister was appointed in 2007
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New biobank supports Obama’s personalised medicine initiative
Mayo Clinic receives $142 million to shed light on individual differences in health and disease
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BusinessThermoFisher Scientific to buy electron microscope maker
Deal will expand lab equipment provider’s instrument portfolio for life and materials sciences
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BusinessJazz Pharma buy out Celator in $1.5bn deal
Deal centres on promising leukaemia drug fast-tracked by the US Food and Drug Administration
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NewsAkzoNobel sponsors colour garden at Chelsea Flower Show
Display celebrates plants that have been used historically to make dyes, and highlights a new project to capture nature’s structural colours in paint
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ResearchMeteorite compounds hint at origins of life’s asymmetry
Excess of right handed sugar derivatives found on meteorites suggests homochirality may have come from space
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BusinessFracking gets first UK approval for five years
Council says Third Energy can test existing borehole in North Yorkshire