Chemistry News

Chemists create a boron compound with the most coordination linkages ever seen in a planar species

Research council plans to improve grant success rates by getting universities to screen out ‘uncompetitive’ proposals

US FDA employees sue agency, saying they were subjected to secret surveillance for expressing safety concerns about medical devices

The killer chemicals that have claimed hundreds of lives in China have been identified in a new species of fungi

Scientists working in Israel and Spain have used two-dimensional NMR to monitor a reaction in real time

The cost cutting trend is set to continue as big pharma reels from patent expiries

Chemistry degrees predicted to buck the trend of a 9% drop in applications to UK universities

When a reaction speeds up in a microwave, is it down to the heat or the microwaves?

A polymer fibre that combines carbon nanotubes and reduced graphene oxide is stronger than spider silk and Kevlar

A zeolite-metal catalyst combination will make transport fuels from biomass a more realistic prospect

Banned organochlorine pesticides such as DDT could be causing chronic illnesses

A computer programme to find a pathway to decontaminate VX, a toxic nerve agent that featured in the Nicolas Cage film The Rock

New discovery suggests iron chelation could treat diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Grant letter holds research funding steady while student numbers are set to drop next year

High bonding order possible in main group and may be responsible for the ability to isolate molecular species

Although chemical trade groups support the President’s emphasis on manufacturing and energy, they caution against overregulation

Roche aims to expand personalised medicine diagnostics by acquiring the gene sequencing leader

Graphene oxide film allows water through but not helium, opening up possibilities for separation technologies

Iron has been incorporated into a surfactant to produce a liquid that responds to an external magnetic field

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