News – Page 54
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ResearchChemists and linguists unite to encode Confucian proverb using sequence-defined polymers
Interdisciplinary collaboration tests how two encoding schemas preserve the visual details of Chinese characters
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NewsA key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk
Japanese scientific society suspends journal publication saying it has ‘completed its role’
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Business$6.6 million settlement follows 2019 fire at Texas petrochemical facility
Site owner to pay compensation for environmental damage caused by release of hazardous chemicals during days-long fire
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ResearchTelling left from right: chirality detection faces up to its weaknesses
New solutions are being found to an enduring problem in chemistry
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NewsUS government scientists follow academics in unionising for better conditions
California Association of Professional Scientists joins a national trade union to boost bargaining power
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ResearchAnalysis of three French chemistry labs shows how they could halve their carbon footprint by 2030
Open-source tool helps researchers evaluate a series of carbon mitigation strategies
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ResearchFirst mirror-image cyclodextrins come together ‘like Lego’
L-enantiomers could be more stable than their existing, more common, forms
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BusinessSix dead in explosion and fire at Indian pharmaceutical plant
At least 17 others injured at SB Organics facility near Hyderabad
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ResearchMonitoring PFAS pollutants in king penguins
New insight into how organohalogen pollutants affect seabirds
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Business3M finalises PFAS settlement with US water suppliers
Court-approved scheme will see up to $12.5 billion to fund cleanup of public drinking water systems
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ResearchBrewing better Belgian beer with artificial intelligence
Machine learning tool can predict a beer’s taste and quality and which flavour compounds could improve it
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NewsRobert Curl’s ‘buckyball’ Nobel prize medal sold at auction for more than double reserve price
Curl won the 1996 chemistry prize with Harry Kroto and Richard Smalley for the discovery of fullerenes
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ResearchIntelligent ionotronic wood device can keep an eye on people’s health
Infusing wood with ionic liquid enables creation of electronic wood
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ResearchStatic on steroids lets meat and fruit stick to metal at flick of switch
Electroadhesion could find biomedical and robotic applications
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ResearchCarbon’s allotrope explosion demonstrates how the element is both versatile and fickle
New all carbon materials are relatively easy to predict but challenging, if not impossible to make, experts tell Andy Extance
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ResearchWhy are there metal particles in never-used cannabis vapes?
Findings cast doubt on past research showing metals are solely released by e-cigarettes when the devices’ coils are heated
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ResearchCrystalline cages create unusual ‘touchless’ sensors
Researchers connect chemistry and engineering to create touch-free buttons based on the detection of the skin’s water
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ResearchModel explains why water can freeze at different temperatures
The research could have applications in snowmaking, cloud seeding and beyond
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NewsSouth Korea joins EU’s research programme Horizon Europe
EU hopes to benefit in areas that include artificial intelligence and antimicrobial resistance
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NewsTweets don’t bring citations, randomised controlled study finds
Social media’s benefits rest more on building scientific networks than promotion