News – Page 93
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NewsCurie family holiday home to become a place for ‘women’s Nobel’ prizes
Polish billionaire bought French mansion once owned by Marie Skłodowska–Curie and Pierre Curie, and has plans to convert it into a space for women
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ResearchPolyatomic molecule cooled to almost absolute zero
Ultracold calcium monohydroxide created in magneto-optical trap
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NewsAnnette Doherty elected next president of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Head of GlaxoSmithKline’s product development will take up her role in July 2024
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ResearchCarbon fragment’s five atom walk in unprecedented rearrangement reaction
Reaction discovered by accident is a rare case of a room temperature [1,5] carbon shift
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NewsQuestion marks over cannabidiol’s safety in food, European agency finds
Food safety body has already received more than 150 applications to add CBD to food products
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ResearchSpider webs record severity of microplastic pollution in cities
Plastic content found to make up as much as a tenth of a web’s total weight
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BusinessDSM and Firmenich to merge
Flavour and fragrance-focused Firmenich complements DSM’s transition away from traditional chemicals
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BusinessDeadly fire and explosions at container depot in Bangladesh
48 dead and hundreds injured as hydrogen peroxide containers exploded
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ResearchHigh-pressure compound contains record-breaking 50% hydrogen
Unique hydrogen–methane van der Waals compound is stabilised by nuclear quantum effects
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NewsUK researchers losing out as Horizon Europe uncertainty drags on
Grants and leadership opportunities lost amid political wrangling
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ResearchFossil molecules reveal dinosaurs’ bird-like metabolism
Thioethers preserved in bones show that most dinosaurs were warm-blooded, though T rex may have been particularly sluggish
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BusinessData reveals disparities in US refinery benzene emissions
Monitoring shows several facilities consistently exceed federal action levels
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ResearchCarbon monoxide polymerised by unusual thulium sandwich complex
Thulium-mediated oligomerisation of carbon monoxide creates C–H activation catalyst
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NewsIChemE’s chief executive to step down
Jon Prichard will leave the Institution of Chemical Engineers at the end of September to head the Mineral Products Association
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NewsThe earlier a chemist wins the Nobel prize the longer they are likely to live
Study suggests chemistry laureates live longer but receive a smaller longevity benefit compared with physics and medicine laureates
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ResearchElectrocatalytic hydrogen atom transfer could give industrial organic synthesis a boost
The new approach – inspired by decades of energy storage research – is selective, efficient and sustainable
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ResearchElectrolyte redesign boosts seawater battery
Anode-less system can both store energy and harvest sodium from the sea
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ResearchBreaking bacteria’s genetic silence to synthesise antibiotics that evade resistance
Prospecting in bacterial genomes offers hope in search for new antimicrobial drugs
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NewsUK launches visa for graduates from highly ranked universities
New scheme omits institutions based in Africa, South Asia or Latin America
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ResearchElectric fields bring new dimension to debate on atomic size
A new methodology gives surprising answers to an old question