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Carbon clusters score lucky seven
Teaming up with titanium is predicted to deliver stable seven-coordinate carbon dication, larger than any seen in the lab
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DSM to cut 1000 jobs
Netherlands speciality chemical company will reduce its headcount by 1000 over the next 18 months
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Flexible lighting is on a roll
Light emitting sheets thinner than a piece of paper have been made in a similar manner to printing a newspaper
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Elan spins off drug discovery
The new company will be called Neotope Biosciences and focus on chronic degenerative diseases
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Graphene reactions driven by substrate not reactant
The surface a sheet of graphene sits on determines its reactivity. US chemists have now explained why
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Printing stained glass
Nanodisks of gold and silver can create colour prints with a resolution of 100,000 dpi
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Non-stick coating gives biofilms the slip
Drawing inspiration from big pharma a high throughput screen has thrown up some interesting materials to protect patients from hospital infections
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DSM buys into cattle supplements
The company has struck a EUR465 million deal to acquire Tortuga
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Tweaked weighing scales help map the island of stability
Direct weighing of lawrencium points the way to finding elusive stable superheavy elements
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Long life rice
Fruit flies’ lifespan increased by 14% with antioxidants extracted from black rice
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Bapineuzunab dropped
Development for the Alzheimer’s treatment stopped after clinical tests
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3D-printed miniaturised fluidic devices
Micro-to-milli-scale fluidic ‘reactionware’ devices made using 3D printing technology
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‘Genetic code’ guides nanoparticle growth
DNA can be programmed to create nanoparticles of various shapes
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Recovering chemical weapons
As stockpiles of chemical weapons are destroyed, the US looks to detecting and destroying buried munitions
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Protein coat for gene therapy
A non-viral capsid has been converted to carry nucleic acids inside
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Solar cell meets sunflower
Boosting solar cell performance using liquid crystal elastomers to mimic sunflowers and track the sun across the sky
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Liquid gallium lights up
Nanomoulded gallium gratings switch plasmonic properties as they melt and solidify
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European air pollution concerns
Emission limits still being exceeded by member states as scientists make further warnings of what’s to come
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Improved drugs to treat malarial liver infection
New antimalarials are more effective than their clinical counterparts in in vitro tests
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BusinessIrish pharma exports tumble
Seven of the top 10 drugs going off patent between 2011 and 2014 are produced in Ireland