News – Page 346
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NewsRoyal Society to address gender imbalance
Society will encourage more women to apply for awards after ‘unacceptable’ success rate in 2014
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Business
Mallinckrodt to buy Ikaria to expand in US hospitals
$2.3bn deal brings nitric oxide ventilator system for newborns with respiratory failure
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NewsScientists left unimpressed by Indian budget
7.5% funding boost for science and technology fails to offset cuts of more than 20% last year
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US health agencies expands open access policy
Move will add 110,000 new papers to PubMed every year
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US universities back new bill to curb patent trolls
Academic research community endorses competing legislation as harmless to university tech transfer
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NewsForgotten synthetic PhD theses set to be given new lease of life
Chemical structures will be harvested from graduate work and analysed for promising drug and materials leads
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NewsButterfly population collapse prompts lawsuit against EPA
US agency criticised for failing to investigate link between glyphosate and the dwindling monarch butterfly population
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News‘Pee power’ urinal trialled on university campus
Microbial fuel cells that run on urine could be used to light toilet blocks in refugee camps
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Research
Tough self-cleaning coating sticks it to stains
Superhydrophobic ‘paint’ can be sprayed or dip-coated onto cotton, glass and metal and survives sandpaper abrasion
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ResearchComputational chemists unpick adenine–thymine bias
Quantum insights into mechanisms behind tautomer-driven DNA evolution
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ResearchProgram ready to weed out tough drug leads
Model could help drug firms avoid synthetically complex dead ends and speed drug discovery
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Proposed ozone rule could cut US GDP by $1.7 trillion
US manufacturing association report claims tighter ozone standard would carry $1.1 trillion in compliance costs
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NewsUS universities warn against patent reform proposals
Congress is considering legislation that would devastate university technology transfer, more than 140 universities caution
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Business
J&J to sell cardiac devices to wholesaler Cardinal
Commodity technology no longer fits with company’s focus on growth and innovation
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ResearchShedding light on fading reds in Van Gogh’s paintings
An exotic lead mineral may be the ‘missing link’ in explaining why the Dutch artist’s work has lost its colour
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NewsMeteoric rise of perovskite solar cells under scrutiny over efficiencies
Testing procedures and device instability mean performance may be inflated
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Business
AstraZeneca to spin off anti-infectives research
Early-stage research will transfer to a new company, while AZ and MedImmune retain late-stage programmes
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ResearchChemists zinc up ‘aromatic’ metal cubes
Metal-organic clusters share electrons between eight covalently linked metal atoms