News – Page 310
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NewsExtent 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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BusinessDeadly US fertiliser plant blast was deliberately set
Fire that caused West Fertilizer explosion was a ‘criminal act,’ US agency concludes
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ResearchDesigner 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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NewsRCUK 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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ResearchDissolving bone to ease pain
Using chemistry to treat and prevent abnormal bone growths in military amputees
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Research‘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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NewsAudit reveals ‘Europe’s MIT’ mired in problems
European Institute of Innovation and Technology troubled since its inception seven years ago
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NewsHormone injections to tackle Beijing’s catkin woes
Chinese authorities are using plant growth regulators in the fight against urban fluff
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ResearchProtein 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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BusinessEvonik acquires Air Products’ chemical unit
Air Products also spinning off electronic materials to focus on industrial gases
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BusinessRethinking herbicide regulations
Europe withdraws amitrole and isoproturon, while EU, US and Colombia reconsider glyphosate rulings
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NewsAustralia opens £80 million nanoscience hub
University of Sydney has unveiled the country’s first purpose-built nanoscience institute
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ResearchAll-metal sandwich inspires a theoretical following
Recently discovered [Sb3Au3Sb3]3– has multiple groups hunting for answers
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BusinessDaiichi Sankyo awarded damages from former Ranbaxy owners
Arbitration says Singh family withheld information about regulatory investigations during Ranbaxy takeover
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NewsBrazil joins race to commercialise graphene
A new graphene and nanomaterials research centre, known as MackGraphe, has officially opened in São Paulo
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NewsImage manipulation in biomedical papers is commonplace
Almost 4% of pictures in papers surveyed over past 20 years contain evidence of tampering
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NewsUK open to microbead ban if EU fails to act
Government may act unilaterally amid growing evidence of environmental problems
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ResearchRechargeable first for promising battery tech
New cathode material makes for energetic, rechargeable sodium–carbon dioxide batteries that could power Mars vehicles
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BusinessAbbot boosts heart devices with St Jude buyout
Medical devices consolidation continues with $25bn deal, but Abbott expresses concerns over proposed Alere merger
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ResearchSmallest ever molecular thermometers made from DNA
Tiny fragments of DNA combined with fluorescent probes can be used to take temperature at the nanoscale