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Breakthrough achieved in flexible electronics

January 18, 2017
News
Scientists in Singapore have developed conducting polymer films that can give a superior performance in plastic electronics. Plastic, or organic, electronics are made from carbon-based semiconductors that could provide flexible,...
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Energy
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Mathematical model creates extremely strong 3D graphene

January 17, 2017
News
MIT researchers have designed a strong and lightweight three-dimensional form of graphene.
Chemistry
Chemistry, Computational Chemistry
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Not just another brick in the wall

January 12, 2017
Feature
Far from being an inert capsule, chemical profiling screenings have revealed that the bacterial cell wall is the seat of bacterial defence mechanisms. Understanding them could help us in the...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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A complex problem…

January 9, 2017
Feature
It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing more complex than algae, animals suddenly started to appear on Earth. Here Rosalie Tostevin discusses new evidence which...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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The Three Musketeers

January 5, 2017
Feature
PARP inhibitors are increasingly becoming seen as a vital tool for use alongside conventional cancer treatments. But what is so special about the trio of PARP1, 2 and 3?As clinical...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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EU drive to increase expertise on chemical effects on humans

January 5, 2017
News
An EU-backed study is to begin this month to increase the number of researchers able to assess the impact of chemicals on the human endocrine system.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Chemistry
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Chemists find novel method to control catalysis

December 19, 2016
News
Scientists in Canada have discovered a novel technique that enables them to manipulate catalytic reactions.
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry
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Elemental discovery points to history of water on Mars

December 19, 2016
News
Boron has been detected for the first time on planet Mars, indicating the presence of long-term groundwater in the past.
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Astrophysics, Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Physics
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Understanding Nature’s scalpel

December 15, 2016
Feature
The CRISPR-Cas system is already one of our most important genetic techniques – and it is one honed by evolution not humanity. So why did it evolve, how exactly does...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Clam shells detail millennium of change

December 14, 2016
News
A US scientist has created, for the first time, a 1,000 year record of ocean climate change – using clam shells.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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