News – Page 422
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Creating biodegradable electronics using shellac
Green high-tech future for natural resin, shellac, as part of compostable, flexible displays and biocompatible devices
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Business
1050 jobs shed in Sabic restructuring
Cuts will be spread across European operations, but the Netherlands and UK take the brunt
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RSC takes top UK business award
Society is commended for substantial growth in its overseas earnings
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Quicker checks for safer water
Raman test can discriminate between different strains of Escherichia coli and Legionella
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Objections raised to GSK pay-for-delay deals
The UK Office of Fair Trading believes deals to delay generic drugs infringed competition laws
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NewsSolar boost for gas power stations
Reactor uses sun’s heat to turn methane into energy rich syngas cutting fuel use by 20%
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BusinessThermo Fisher to buy Life Technologies in $15.8bn deal
Equipment suppliers unite, bringing Thermo into life sciences and sequencing markets
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BusinessDeadly blast destroys US fertiliser plant
Up to 15 dead and over 160 injured in a fire and explosion in Waco, Texas
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Reducing the cost of perovskite solar cells
Cheaper photovoltaic devices could be produced using a method that does not require temperatures above 150°C
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NewsSanofi launches malaria drug production
French pharma firm set to supply a third of the world’s artemisinin next year with photochemical process
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ResearchElectron flashes catch organics in the act
‘Beautiful’ diffraction movie shows small molecule superconductor candidate transition from insulator to metal phases
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Reconstructing how the Romans made glass
Antimony isotope analysis helps reveal glass heritage
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Sieving silica sieves from biomass ash
Scientists convert waste from combustion into mesoporous silica
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Radical approach to turn sulfur into polymers
Petroleum refining waste product ready to be formed into high performance lithium ion battery cathodes
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Biofuels are expensive and unsustainable, report says
UK think tank Chatham House criticises EU fuel policy
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ResearchPolymer ‘nano-suit’ protects insects from vacuum
Discovery could revolutionise electron microscopy by letting scientists examine living organisms
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Polymer lubricant may stave off knee surgery
Development of new synthesis method for high molecular weight polymer, which could be used to lubricate joints
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Business
BASF introduces cell-based allergen test
Non-animal test for cosmetic ingredients to comply with Reach regulation
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Waitrose bans neonicotinoid pesticides
Supermarket introduces precautionary ban on fresh produce suppliers using neonicotinoids until their effect on bees is clarified
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Split water splitting raises green hydrogen hopes
Two-stage electrolysis releases hydrogen on demand separately from oxygen, enabling cheaper renewable energy production