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London rolls out dust suppressant technology
Chemical dust suppressant cuts small particulate levels by up to 14 per cent by 'gluing' them to the road
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Chemical profits nibbled by oversupplies
Although China's chemical industry posted good figures in their mid-year reports, there could be a shadow looming on the horizon
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Manmade molecular machine goes to work
A small, manmade molecule can produce similar forces to natural molecular machines
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Bacteria create missing 'atmospheric brooms' that sweep the sky clean
The puzzle of where key chemical species that remove pollutants from the atmosphere come from may have been solved
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Two for one - cleaning water and generating energy
A dual-purpose system degrades organic compounds in wastewater, powering a fuel cell that generates electricity
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Sugar injection to beat hospital infection
A potential vaccine against the deadly bacterium Clostridium difficile
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Worms modified to express unnatural amino acids
Tiny worms engineered to add unnatural amino acids to their proteins could help uncover disease pathways
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Plasma treatment to use patient's proteins to improve medical device biocompatibility
Sticking a patient's own proteins onto medical devices should help stop rejection of implants
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Chemists vent anger at funding body in letters to UK government
More than 200 top chemists have signed two letters complaining of their frustration at how the EPSRC makes funding decisions
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Trifluoromethylation made easy
A simple way to insert fluorine into organic compounds could help chemists manufacture improved drugs
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Making light work of disassembling capped nanotubes
Researchers have designed self-assembling nanotubes can be taken apart using just light
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Unravelling cell membranes to understand drugs
Researchers have created more accurate models of cell membranes containing transmembrane proteins
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Enzyme inspired nickel complex races to produce hydrogen
Catalyst that mimics hydrogenase enzymes turns out hydrogen 10 times faster than its biological counterparts
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Getting to the core of a tumour for drug study
Regions of tumours that are difficult to target with drugs are being studied to help scientists to develop more effective drugs
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'Dial a molecule' approach controls antibiotic production
The structure of the pacidamycin antibiotics can be refined by genetic tinkering
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Sapphire scaffold builds flexoelectric film from the ground up
A film that generates an electric field when bent will be useful for making better photovoltaics and diodes
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Toyota create first magnesium-sulfur rechargeable battery
An electrolyte that pairs magnesium with sulfur is a crucial step on the road to new efficient rechargeable batteries
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US debt deal is a mixed bag for researchers
The US debt ceiling agreement offers good news for science in the short-term, but could spell trouble longer-term
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DuPont halts sale of wayward herbicide
Complaints of damage to trees have led the US chemical major to suspend sales of Imprelis, approved in the US in August last year
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Ligand could capture actinides from spent nuclear fuel
A new ligand may solve the biggest problem of high-level nuclear waste - separating lanthanides from actinides