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NewsMPs call for a bridge over ‘valley of death’
Small businesses are being let down by the UK government and new models of financial support are urgently needed
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Business
Dispute over Arkema finances
French speciality chemical company Arkema accused of misrepresenting business sold to investment firm last year
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Removing toxic chemicals with POPs
Porous organic polymers can be tailored to filter the air for toxic compounds, and don’t degrade in moist or corrosive environments
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NewsUniversity cleared, student recovering after poisoning
Seemingly deliberate thallium and arsenic exposure leaves Southampton PhD chemist fighting nerve damage
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NewsAntibiotic resistance is a ‘ticking time bomb’
Efforts to tackle the threat will need new thinking, but their may be no easy solutions or short cuts to new drugs
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Googling for new drug side effects
An analysis of people's web searches has discovered unknown adverse effects from taking several drugs at once
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'Plasmonic smart dust' conjures kinetics clues
Silica-coated gold nanoparticles enable versatile optical sensing method to track reaction kinetics
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NewsRetreating from meetings?
In the US, the sequestration might make it harder for government scientists to travel to conferences, the ACS fears
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Libel reform bill at risk
Campaigners fear that appending the bill to efforts to regulate the press will doom reform
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New definition for supramolecular chemistry
In supramolecular chemistry entropy rules over enthalpy, say Mexican scientists,
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High-capacity MOF shows clean fuel promise
Cars that run on low-pressure natural gas could become a common sight on our roads thanks to a new high-capacity MOF material
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Battleground develops over antibiotic killing mechanism
New research suggests traditional mechanisms, rather than reactive oxygen species, are responsible for killing bacteria
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The next big thing in mass spectrometry
18MDa intact virus capsid is the heaviest object to be analysed so far
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Recycling electronics with dimethyl sulfoxide
Solvent extraction could be greener than current methods of reclaiming materials from circuit boards
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Elusive water dimer detected at last
Scientists in Russia have observed water dimers in atmospheric conditions for the first time, following 40 years of research
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How healthy is your breath?
A baseline measurement of healthy human breath could one day enable the routine diagnosis of disease from a single exhalation
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NewsData challenges for UK chemists
Academic chemists are being overwhelmed by the amount of information they both produce and feel they ought to be reading, a report claims
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NewsFukushima disaster predicted to raise cancer rates slightly
World Health Organization report expects cancer risk to rise marginally, but doesn’t put a figure on the number of deaths expected
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Research
Blink and you'll miss it
A new method for single molecule tracking of fluorescent molecules promises a more accurate and efficient approach
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Business
University to acquire Shell UK R&D site
Site at Thornton will become a science park under the stewardship of the University of Chester