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ResearchLanguage-based software’s accurate predictions translate to benefits for chemists
State-of-the-art design for computer language processing results in improved models for predicting chemistry
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First synthesis of unusual natural product could revive forgotten eco-friendly insecticide class
16-step synthesis of rare diterpene could reveal new ways to control insecticide-resistant pests
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Electrochemistry can cut cement’s carbon footprint to virtually zero
Cement’s carbon emissions are a big problem for the industry but renewable energy could see the process go green
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Bronze age tin from Israeli shipwrecks was mined in Britain
Isotope analysis matches metal to mines in Devon and Cornwall suggesting ancient trade route existed
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Template molecules round-up extra-large cyclodextrins from enzymatic synthesis
Scientists rethink how they use enzymes in chemical synthesis by exerting thermodynamic, rather than kinetic, control
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Elusive protein and key to many tropical diseases found after decades of searching
Discovery offers powerful new target to treat trypanosome parasite illnesses that affect millions
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Another 43 new kinds of carbon could still be out there to find
Predictions could lead to forms of carbon that are even harder than diamond
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’Blackest black’ ever made is 10 times darker than previous record holder
Serendipitous discovery produces darkest material in existence using carbon nanotubes
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Universal method bypasses obstacles to making neglected hydrocarbon skeletons
Universal method bypasses obstacles to making neglected hydrocarbon skeletons
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Large gold nanoclusters are surprisingly stable paramagnets
An odd electron makes the magnetism
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Aluminium makes water-harvesting MOF 10 times thirstier
New MOF harvests up to 0.7 litres of water per day in the Mojave Desert – the driest place in North America
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Human biases cause problems for machines trying to learn chemistry
Including ‘unpopular’ reagents and reaction conditions into datasets could lead to better machine-learning models
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AFM images show bond formation in greatest detail yet
Strange ring-shaped sub-atomic images result from Lennard-Jones physisorption–chemisorption energy curve
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Glucose derivative replaces BPA in sustainable polycarbonate plastic
Transparent engineered plastic ditches hormone disruptor and lung irritant
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Can organic solar cells stand the test of time?
Devices road-tested in blistering conditions equivalent to that of 37 suns
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New way to create huge protein polymer chains
Strategy constructs synthetic protein polymers that weigh 0.5MDa
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Water surprise: microdroplets have potential to produce H2O2
US researchers discover that microscopic droplets of water spontaneously generate hydrogen peroxide
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Solution to 120 year-old puzzle reveals new chemical phenomenon
Seemingly identical acetaldehyde phenylhydrazone crystals melt at different temperatures
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Mineral never before seen in nature found inside Australian meteorite
Black-and-red rock that fell to Earth 68 years ago contains iron carbide compound
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Why photosynthetic organisms evolved to have dimeric reaction centres
Excitation energy transfer enhancements thought to compensate for decrease in charge transfer efficiency of going from monomers to dimers
