Articles tagged with "Chemistry"
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Cloudy with a chance of biology…
December 6, 2017
The delivery of membrane proteins to subcellular compartments is essential for eukaryotic life with errors causing severe diseases. Professor Michael Schrader tells us about his team’s work on the use...
Volcanic eruption linked to El Niño
December 5, 2017
Researchers at Rutgers University have discovered that large volcanic eruptions can prompt El Niño events.
Renewable energy branches out
December 4, 2017
A team from the US have found a way to convert one of the World’s most abundant polymer – lignin –into a renewable biomass source.
All is not as it seems
December 4, 2017
Digital images are frequently used to provide supporting evidence within papers and reports, yet are not routinely submitted to any scientific process of authentication. In a world in which the...
Don’t fool yourself
December 1, 2017
Are we fooling ourselves? Can science ever be free of our very human biases?
Google boss’ big vision for joined-up science
October 17, 2017
The CEO of Alphabet Inc – the parent company of Google – has announced a new post-doctoral fellowship programme with the goal of enhancing cross-disciplinary research.
The cure within us all
October 10, 2017
The great hope for cancer research is that we can cajole our own immune system to do the hard work. It has been a difficult road, but the good news...
Nobel Chemistry Prize winners announced
October 4, 2017
Three scientists will share this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
The crystal clarity of deep learning
October 3, 2017
Sean McGee explains how deep machine learning could finally prove to be the key that opens up automated analysis of protein crystals
Solar block reaches new heights
October 2, 2017
New technology created by a University of Exeter spin-out could see buildings powered using innovative glass blocks.
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