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Lightbulb moment for food waste

November 28, 2015
News
Chemists have found a way to create light emitting diodes – which can efficiently convert electricity to light – from food and beverage waste.
Chemistry
Chemistry, Green Chemistry
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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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Solar energy storage taken to next level

July 30, 2015
News
Chemists at UCLA have developed technology that can store solar energy for up to several weeks rather than for a few microseconds. Inspired by the way plants generate energy, the...
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry
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Ultracold molecules hint at quantum behaviour

June 30, 2015
News
By achieving the lowest temperature ever recorded, scientists have managed to create ultracold molecules which seem to exist in exotic state.  A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Chemistry
Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
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Seeing real time bond formation

March 25, 2015
News
Researchers have visualised real time bond formation in an entire chemical reaction. Chemists at the Institute for Basic Science for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions in South Korea used X-ray free-electron...
Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry
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New molecule to slow Parkinson’s

March 23, 2015
News
Scientists have designed a peptide that can slow down brain cell damage associated with Parkinson disease. A research team at the University of Bath used a peptide that can bind...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry
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Chemistry in the perfect coffee

March 18, 2015
Insight
Computational chemistry and coffee; not – you might imagine – natural bedfellows. But Theoretical and Computational Chemist Christopher Hendon begs to differ… You were at the World Barista Championships 2014...
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemistry, Interviews, Physics
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