News – Page 640
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Women honoured with international prize
The 2007 L'Oreal Unesco awards honour women in materials science.
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Hydrogels make programmed chemical origami
Israeli scientists have created elastic sheets which buckle into pre-programmed 3D shapes on command.
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Complex organic molecules teamed with iodine
Enantioselective synthesis opens route to marine natural products
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Organic electricity generator is hot stuff
US researchers show thermoelectricity in a carbon-based molecule
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Columbus' explorers failed to strike silver
Lead isotope analysis of ore from the Dominican Republic reveals an unexpected provenance for the material.
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Against the grain
PREVIEW: As policymakers rush to promote biofuels, can the US break its obsession with corn ethanol?
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UK nuclear policy setback
Public consultation on government's nuclear power plans condemned as 'inadequate' by High Court judge .
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Novartis contests India's patent law
Drug company accuses India of failing to comply with WTO patent regulations.
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Slim-line silicon speeds up protein separation
Ultra-slim silicon membranes: from labs on chips to artificial kidneys.
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Raphael revealed by Raman spectroscopy
Forensic analysis of paint scraps dates picture to before, not after, the Sistine Madonna
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Foreign postgrad vetting proposals 'absolutely unnecessary'
US educationists urge 'Don't do it the way we did'.
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Simple hormone treatment cures lethal heart condition
Heart disease cured with a hormone-based drug already prescribed for breast feeding mothers.
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Protein's non-natural alternative
Chemists have synthesised what they say is the first 'remarkably protein like' beta-peptide quaternary structure.
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Nuclear storage: ready, willing, able, and undecided
No insurmountable technical barriers to storing nuclear waste deep underground.