News – Page 432
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EU food agency links pesticides to bee decline
Agency says neonicotinoids should only be used on crops bees avoid but agrichemical companies dispute its findings
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NewsNanotech patent jungle set to become denser in 2013
Is a thicket of patents strangling a nascent industry?
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Research
Casting a shadow over green light bulbs
An analysis of the toxic metals in LEDs and CFLs shows that while they save energy their environmental legacy must not be forgotten
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Azo-cops nab CO2 but let N2 go free
Porous polymers could scrub carbon dioxide from power station flue gases
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Business
UK companies struggling with Reach
Regulation is ‘elephant in the room’ as manufacturers fail to recognise implications
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Spectrometry to the rescue!
Ion mobility spectrometry could replace sniffer dogs hunting for survivors in the wake of natural disasters
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Business
Laropiprant recalled
Merck & Co says it is recalling Tredaptive tablets, approved in the EU for treating patients with high cholesterol
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NewsIndia sets ambitious targets for science
Science policy aims to increase research funding to 2% of GDP by 2017 with the help of private enterprise
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NewsSweetener in the clear once more
European food safety body finds no evidence linking aspartame to cancer or any other disease
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Research
Nanotube fibre production in a spin
Strong, long and conductive: improved recipe means wet-spun carbon nanotube fibres can compete
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Pharma industry 'strategic crisis'
The problem is shrinking margins, caused by price and cost pressure, regulatory change and expiring patents, report says
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Following her passion
Veronique Gouverneur tells Marie Cote about fabulous fluorine and her next challenge
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ResearchQuantum timepiece ticks the right boxes
A clock that relies on the mass of an atom to measure time could be used to settle arguments over the definition of the kilogram
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ResearchRotaxane mimics ribosome to spin out peptides
Bio-inspired molecular machine can piece together three amino acids
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Golden rice trial breached ethical guidelines
Three Chinese researchers sacked after failing to tell participants parents that rice was genetically modified
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Business
Dow Corning to reduce roster by 500
Company says it must respond to oversupplied markets, high raw materials costs and poor growth in many regions
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Research
Antifreeze protein's watery dance
How the proteins that keep animals alive in -30°C temperatures do their job
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Crystals aim to light up dark matter
Scaling calcium tungstate detector up to 500kg will improve chances of finding Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)