News – Page 372
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Business
Tata Chemicals to mothball Kenya plant
Closure blamed on high energy prices and will mean 200 jobs being cut
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NewsFormer Royal Society of Chemistry president Lord Lewis dies
Jack Lewis, inorganic chemist and member of the House of Lords, has died aged 86
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ResearchBubble wrap could send lab costs packing
Potential bubbles up across wide range of uses as storage and test vessels, especially for poor countries
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Business
Albemarle buys into lithium with Rockwood merger
$6.2 billion deal capitalises on battery market growth
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NewsAustralia scraps its carbon tax
The country is unlikely to meet its climate change targets unless some form of carbon pricing is introduced, campaigners claim
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NewsSpending on UK science and engineering continues to fall
Science campaign groups worry that the country’s research base is slowly being run down
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ResearchCoffee cup confusion
Scientists call for better labelling after research highlights inconsistencies in the chemical composition of a cup of coffee
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ResearchMolecular computer calculates Ebola diagnosis
A prototype device displays a fluorescent ‘E’ in the presence of DNA found in Ebola virus
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ResearchLinguistic statistics enable synthetic prophetics
A metric more commonly used by search engines to analyse language can now power organic chemistry retrosyntheses
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Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access
Chemical Science will follow gold open access model from January 2015 and waive author fees for two years
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Research‘Greener’ blue fireworks safer and less toxic
Environmentally friendly pyrotechnic cuts out the perchlorates by replacing them with copper iodide
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NewsPublic–private research partnerships to tackle Europe's big problems
EU to pump billions into projects that hope to deliver new medicines, better fuel cells and sustainable aviation
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NewsScience minister replaced in UK cabinet reshuffle
Greg Clark replaces David Willetts as minister for science and universities
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ResearchMolecular clocks may probe fundamental laws
Clocks based on the simplest molecule could weigh in on proton’s mass
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ResearchFirst experimental evidence of a boron fullerene
Distorted 40-boron atom fullerene detected mixed with quasiplanar isomer
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NewsIndian scientists applaud research budget
Fears that the government would cut science funding proved unfounded as more money is made available
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ResearchPlant material aligns to make tough aerogels
Nanocellulose fibres help aerogels overcome their brittle nature
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ResearchCrystal-to-crystal transformation
Scientists take structural snapshots of azobenzene cocrystals as they bend in the light
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Business
Co-operation keeps contracts coming
Clubbing together gives contract research organisations more power to win new business in an evolving market
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ResearchModels contend iodine double bonds
Theoretical studies replace double bonds with dative in hypervalent iodine compounds