News – Page 437
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Spotting silicon in graphene, it's dope
Better understanding of impurities is a prelude to putting atom-thin material into computer chips
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Protein coat prepares catalyst for cascades
Protected metal complexes can team up with enzymes for multistep reactions
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Solvay launches €300,000 chemistry prize
To recognise science that could ‘shape tomorrow’s chemistry and help human progress’
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BusinessCan the UK fund CCS?
EU is offering €1.5 billion in funding but lack of co-ordination with UK scheme threatens participation
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BusinessRecord insider trading case hits pharma
US authorities claim that hedge fund manager made illicit gains of $276 million in response to confidential clinical trial data
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Schiff seals deal with Reckitt
Boards approves $1.4 billion Reckitt offer as Bayer pulls out of running
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Fingerprints on demand
A micro-dispensing system to print artificial fingerprints for forensic tests
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Magnesium oxide might go metallic in super-Earths
Discovery suggests more exoplanets could generate life-preserving magnetic fields
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BASF bids €664m for omega-3 company
Pronova BioPharma makes pharmaceutical ingredients as well as nutritional supplements based in omega-3 fatty acids
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Two-faced particles self-assemble in sync
Magnetic microspheres' self-organisation into tubules could be harnessed for microfluidics
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Russian universities face bleak future
Audit of state run institutes brands 25% as ‘inefficient’ and many may face closure
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'Molecular trapdoor' opens only for CO2
Zeolite's cation bouncers on the doors can keep out undesirables like methane while letting in carbon dioxide - handy for carbon capture
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BP to pay £4.5 billion for disaster
Company will plead guilty to criminal charges including felony manslaughter
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Reckitt steps into Schiff deal
Higher bid could sink Bayer’s $1.2bn attempt to buy vitamins and nutritional supplements company
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C–O bond stretched to record length
Efforts to extend bonds could lead to new bonding concepts and strategies for catalysis
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Keeping science in the family
Robin McCarley tells Vibhuti Patel about his work on bioanalytical sensors, motivating his students and the family that inspired him to become a scientist
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BusinessWhat lies within
Bayer boss Marijn Dekkers aims to increase impact of good R&D across different internal units
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(+)-Myrrhanol C made
Spanish chemists have completed the stereospecific total synthesis of (+)-myrrhanol C
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BusinessObama re-election worries chemical industry
A second term could mean more aggressive environmental regulations and an emboldened EPA, chemical industry groups warn
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DNA folds up into a synthetic ion channel
Researchers use DNA origami to create a nanochannel that can insert itself into a lipid membrane