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Explainer: Why have protein design and structure prediction won the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry?
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How AI protein structure prediction and design won the Nobel prize
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won this year’s Nobel prize in chemistry. Jamie Durrani investigates the origins of a biochemistry revolution
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The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
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Twelve Nobel laureates tell us about winning chemistry’s biggest prize
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Beyond hydrogen bonding: new definitions for secondary bonding interactions to end confusion
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Composite many times more effective at capturing gold than existing materials
Foaming bioplastic breaks down in seawater four times faster than paper
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Cinchona plant alkaloid catalyst subtracts hydrogen to invert alcohols’ chirality
Microbubbles activate C–H bonds, converting methane into ethane and formic acid
Meteorite 200 times larger than one that killed dinosaurs reset early life
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Sunlight-powered device harvests lithium from salty water
Sanofi spins out its consumer healthcare business
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Large language models are great, but they don’t speak to me
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Carbon capture making slow progress in UK and Europe
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Drug companies reluctantly accept state price negotiations
Fire at US pool chemical plant releases huge chlorine plume
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Public inquiry into Novichok poisonings hopes to shed light on murky events
The investigation into the Amesbury poisonings let the public see the importance of forensic chemistry
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Does lysergic acid link the Salem witch trials and a Catholic saint?
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A high-pressure insight into the structure of water
The hydrogen-bonded network in liquid water resists compression; density increases instead arise from molecules moving into voids
Yvonne Perrie: ‘Good research culture is about being able to learn and fail without judgment’
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Nobel prize winners far more likely to come from wealthy families highlighting inequality in the sciences
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Nobel prize-winning scientists mobilise for Kamala Harris
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Online archive of Humphry Davy’s notebooks opens to the public
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ChemisTwin: Cloud-based analysis of NMR and IR spectra
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Driving innovation in the UK’s emerging biotechnology sector
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Yvonne Perrie: ‘Good research culture is about being able to learn and fail without judgment’
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How taking part in extracurricular activities during your PhD can help you build your CV
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