Hourglass

Are we rushing ahead with AI in the lab?

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Patience will be key to making machine learning indispensable – and practical – for chemistry

Pesticide spraying

Call for EU to ban sale of pesticides already outlawed in the bloc

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Coalition of citizen groups argues that measure would cost few jobs and save lives, protect the environment in low- and middle-income countries

Fluid

Programmable liquid hints at widespread applications

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A ‘metafluid’ formed from collapsible elastic shells suspended in oil exhibits very different properties at different pressures 

Taiwan earthquake

‘It’s devastating’: Taiwanese chemistry department destroyed in April earthquake

2024-05-03T08:30:00+01:00

Chemists are calling for the science community to be ready to help colleagues hit by disaster

GSK carbon neutral lab

Chemists funded to cut the environmental footprint of their labs

2024-04-29T13:30:00+01:00

The Royal Society of Chemistry to support 33 projects in 11 countries aiming to make chemistry research greener

Kherson State University

US National Academy of Sciences launches $8m fund to support Ukraine’s science community

2024-04-22T13:30:00+01:00

The fund draws on support from philanthropic organisations, including the Simons Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation 

Nitazene

Explainer: nitazenes and xylazine – a cause for concern

2024-04-22T13:30:00+01:00

Why is the use of these highly potent synthetic drugs rising dramatically?

Canada budget

Canada pledges dramatic pay rise for PhDs, postdocs – but many will not benefit

2024-04-19T14:58:00+01:00

Budget commits $825 million over five years to boost PhD stipends and postdoctoral fellowships, after over 20 years of stagnation

Blood donation

Microbial enzymes cut a path towards universal blood for transfusions

2024-05-03T08:34:00+01:00

Slicing off glycans revealed new, previously unknown antigens that must be removed to produce O-type blood

Monsoon

Monsoons launch surprising amounts of ozone-depleting substances into lower atmosphere

2024-05-01T13:30:00+01:00

Findings challenge past assumptions about ozone layer recovery

Earth atmosphere

Warning that solar geoengineering could cause unexpected regional heating

2024-05-01T08:30:00+01:00

Aerosol modelling study injects note of caution on strategy to control warming

Pay rise

National Institutes for Health boosts pay for PhD students and postdocs in the US

2024-04-30T13:46:00+01:00

Stipend increases apply to more than 17,000 early-career researchers

Diamond

Liquid metal synthesis of diamonds achieved at atmospheric pressure

2024-04-30T08:30:00+01:00

Combining nickel, iron and silicon with gallium enabled diamond film synthesis from methane

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Antiaromaticity

Illuminating antiaromaticity

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Aromaticity’s dark alter-ego is ready to emerge into the sunlight. James Mitchell Crow talks to the scientists trying to exploit the instability

1959 Barbie

Conserving Barbie from degradation

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Although she is a cultural icon, conserving Barbie has its challenges: as with most plastic toys and dolls, she was not made to last. Rachel Brazil investigates how conservation scientists are approaching this sticky problem

Magnetic levitation

Superconductivity: the search and the scandal

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Recent high profile controversies haven’t deterred scientists from searching for one of research’s ultimate prizes: room temperature superconductors. Kit Chapman reports on the claims

Oceans

The oceans’ climate challenge

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Nina Notman speaks to the researchers unpicking the many ways the climate crisis is impacting our oceans – and vice versa

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