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NewsEU science funding boosts job prospects over the next decade
The now defunct FP7 scheme may still generate up to 130,000 new research positions per year
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‘High risk’ research should be championed at German universities
Expert panel urges government to extend excellence initiative that would help institutes join global elite
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Research‘Forbidden chemistry’ drives carbon bond forming sequence
Flow process harnesses unstable diazo compounds in room temperature reactions
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ResearchStronger gluten bolsters bioplastics
Plants manipulated to produce enhanced building blocks for biopolymers
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ResearchSolar cells firing on all cylinders
Cylindrical solar cells have better efficiencies throughout the day, independent of the angle of the sun
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NewsAustralia falling behind on research commercialisation, government warns
New policies hope to boost academia-industry collaborations
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BusinessOil slump reverberates in chemicals
Collapse in crude prices has complex and mixed effects on markets for derivative chemicals
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ResearchAn energetic chemist
University of Waterloo’s Linda Nazar has spent the last two decades moving beyond lithium-ion batteries to cheaper, higher energy density storage
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Research‘Chameleon’ camouflages itself with plasmonic skin
Nano-structured display changes colour in response to electric field
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BusinessChemChina offers to buy Syngenta in $43bn takeover
Directors welcome deal that will allow agrochemicals giant to establish a presence in China
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ResearchA small molecule’s big moment
Substituted benzene has the largest dipole ever observed in a neutral molecule
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ResearchCatching up with legal highs
How do you test for drugs when you don’t know what you’re looking for?
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ResearchSprucing up biofuel with renewable antioxidants
Coniferous bio-oil found to be an effective biodiesel stabiliser
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ResearchDNA-coated nanoparticles take crystal engineering into the diamond league
Self-assembling superlattices built with DNA could usher in era of materials on demand
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NewsSexual harassment prompts research funders and government to act in US
Funding agencies take a stand against harassment in academic research, amid congressional pressure
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Business
BP to cut 7000 jobs
UK oil company reduces its workforce to cut costs in response to low oil price and charges from Deepwater Horizon incident
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BusinessMedical devices consolidation continues
Abbott to buy Alere for $5.8bn to augment its point-of-care diagnostics business
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ResearchMilk could aid fight against malnutrition
New animal model shows milk proteins can repair intestinal damage