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Reaching out for the origins of life

October 22, 2015
Feature
Evidence suggests meteorites could have been an important source of the prebiotic compounds required for life on Earth. Now, after the success of ESA’s Rosetta mission, NASA are hoping to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Characterising the future of medicine

October 13, 2015
Feature
Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. However, access to the expertise and methodologies required to characterise new nanomaterials is limited. Now,...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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DNA repair studies win Chemistry Nobel Prize

October 7, 2015
News
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for their discoveries in DNA repair.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Chemistry
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Green slime opens the door to the past

September 28, 2015
News
Green slime at the bottom of an Antarctic lake replicates conditions that occurred on Earth 2.8-2.4 billion years ago, a new study finds. A research team at the University of...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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Mind on matter – Mark Miodownik speaks up for Materials Science

September 14, 2015
Insight
Professor Mark Miodownik, Materials Scientist, Engineer and Broadcaster tells us about his current work and why we should love our material world You’ve recently published a paper on material stimuli...
Chemistry, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemistry, Interviews, Materials, Materials Science, Physics
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Relaunching the power of fluorine

September 4, 2015
Insight
DuPont 2015 Chemistry Student Award winner Sébastien Alazet talks fluorine and how to reinvigorate a whole branch of chemistry…The fluorine atom is one of the most powerful atoms in the...
Chemistry
Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemistry, Interviews
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Better science with improved efficiency

September 3, 2015
Feature
Can laboratories really perform better science with improved efficiency and lower environmental impact? The results of the 2015 S-Lab Awards suggests that they can – but doing so requires a...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Building a case

August 27, 2015
Feature
The use of DNA in Forensic Science is widely acknowledged – but Forensic Science is a very broad field. Here we look more closely at how cases are built up...
Chemistry
Forensics, In Depth
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Finding the personal touch

August 18, 2015
Feature
The drive for personalised medicine requires an increasingly intimate understanding of the human genome – something impossible without high-performance computing. But, says Dr Robert Esnouf, the pace of research must...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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1% battery, shutting down now. How biology can solve a very modern problem…

August 6, 2015
Feature
The key to the next big leap in battery technology is buried deep within our own cells says Dr Carol Lynn Curchoe – but can we harness it to create...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, In Depth, Materials, Materials Science, Pharmaceutical
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