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Materials and Polymers
Researchers have created a material that can flip from flexible to rigid on application of an electric charge
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Methane activation by organometallic reagent
A metal-carbon bond can activate methane to produce useful hydrocarbons
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An electric partnership
Unlikely pairing of bacteria provides each one with chemicals to their mutual current-generating benefit in a bioelectrochemical reactor
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Swimming with sensors
A sensor that can be printed onto a wetsuit could be used to detect pollutants and explosives in sea water
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Mosquitoes fooled by compounds that target CO2 sensors
New chemicals can fight mosquito-borne diseases by interfering with the insects' carbon dioxide receptors
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Texas universities' spending under scrutiny
Think tanks target public spending at Texas universities amid claims of underperforming staff
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Hard x-rays to watch chemical reactions
Chemists can now peer deeper into a material to follow chemical reactions thanks to a new x-ray technique
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Business
Business roundup: June 2011
Succinic acid plans Dutch life and material sciences company DSM and French starch company Roquette Frères are together planning to build what they say will be the largest European plant for the production of succinic acid from biological sources. To be built on the Roquette site at Cassano Spinola ...
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Environment & Energy
A Europe wide ban on cadmium in plastics, jewellery and amateur model-making has been announced
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Getting to grips with volcanic ash
Researchers are learning a lot about the tiny particles of volcanic ash that have spewed from volcanoes in Iceland and caused misery for air travellers
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Polymer caterpillar crawls in humid weather
A polymer sandwich that responds to changes in humidity can 'crawl' carrying 120 times its own weight
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Hunting elusive green fluorescent proteins
Cracking a 40-year-old conundrum could result in the discovery of new protein tags
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Nanospray for nanodrugs
A spraying technique to make drug candidates soluble so that they are not discarded at early stages of drug trials
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NewsElectron confounds predictions and remains stubbornly spherical
A new study finds the electron is spherical, which has deep implications for the standard model of physics
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Engineered bacterium to take on petrochemicals producers
A US company has created E. coli that can cheaply synthesise large amounts of a chemical feedstock from sugars
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Mars is the planet that never grew up
Arrested development accounts for the bafflingly small size of Mars: meteorite isotope records show it never grew up
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Bacteria could turn coffee waste into drugs
Caffeine-munching bacteria could turn coffee waste into drugs or a feedstock for biofuels
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Cost-cutting will stifle UK innovation
A report claims that the government's penny-pinching attitude to publicly funded services will damage the country's innovative edge
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Chemical industry fears over UK emissions plans
Plans to halve emissions by 2050 could jeopardise a greener future, the industry says