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Delving deeper in the Hall of the Kings
A portable and non-invasive technique to study and characterise pigments in ancient architecture
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Plant power!
Organocatalysis to convert newspaper and cotton into a fossil fuel alternative
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Multiple insecticides are bad news for bumblebees
New study suggests that exposure to multiple insecticides causes bumblebees additional problems
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Bankruptcy for US Li ion battery maker
Johnson Controls to buy the automotive business of A123 Systems for $125 million
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NewsEPSRC grant success rates rise
Approval rates rise to their highest level in a decade but hide a worrying fall in the number of applications
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Mustard plant can hold nerve agent secrets
UK scientists have shown that plants can be used to detect nerve agents
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Pfizer to pay $700m for Ritalin re-formulated
Pfizer to buy a company with a liquid formulation of historic ADHD drug methylphenidate
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Haber-Bosch power consumption slashed
A new ruthenium catalyst has overcome poisoning problems that have plagued other catalysts
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RNA teams up to beat selfish rivals
Ribozymes that cooperate outdo autocatalytic rivals, supporting the idea that life evolved from an ‘RNA world’
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Killing three parasites with one stone
The development of a hybrid drug that is active against three parasites simultaneously
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$2.2bn speciality chemicals acquisition
Family-owned US speciality chemical company Champion Technologies is to be bought by Ecolab
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GSK pledge on trials transparency
Pharma giant tackles critics by announcing that it will publish all clinical trials data regardless of the result
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Carbon dioxide to chemical partnership
Petronas to partner with gas fermentation specialist LanzaTech
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Night of the living surfaces
A work surface that 'feeds' on food spillages to synthesise antibiotics could help to prevent opportunistic infections in hospitals
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Cheers as Mars x-ray spectrometer delivers rock data
Chemical analysis shows Mars geology may have more in common with Earth than previously thought
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The future of fashion
A hybrid energy harvesting device to power up mobile devices can be integrated into clothing
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Synthesis by mass spectrometry
A common analytical technique can also be used to synthesise milligrams of a molecule
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Cyclophane ‘box’ may be able to be used to trap toxic chemicals in the environment
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ResearchAn ultralight graphene structure for all seasons
Super material is fire resistant and can absorb a record breaking 600 times its own weight in oil