All articles by Andy Extance – Page 4
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Feature2020: the year the world changed
Andy Extance discovers how scientists around the world have responded to the pandemic, working on solutions from drugs and vaccines to hand sanitiser and PPE
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ResearchTyre compound driving mystery salmon deaths identified after years of chemical detective work
Previously unknown substance washes from roads to spawning streams – and likely has wide impact on aquatic ecosystems
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NewsUK reaches the gigahertz NMR level – behind other nations
New instruments push the limits of this vital analytical technique – but other countries are already reaching even higher fields and frequencies
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ResearchRoom temperature superconductivity finally claimed by mystery material
At high pressures carbon–hydrogen–sulfur compound becomes superconducting at 15˚C
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ResearchSuper-cool study finds hints as to why water is so weird
Preventing complete freezing down to 135K supports theories suggesting a two-state mixture exists
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ResearchCarbon bond formation reproducibility runs into reagent stability problem
Solid sodium alkoxides react with carbon dioxide and can hamper performance – but sometimes improve it
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ResearchLiquid hydrogen rethink has astronomical implications
Machine learning simulates smooth transition between states, which could affect giant planets
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ResearchViewpoint shift designs drug binding proteins from scratch
New method focuses on the groups touching amino acid side chains
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ResearchIBM seeks to simplify robotic chemistry
RoboRXN system extends AI approach to extracting and checking chemistry information from patent literature to programming automation
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ResearchSound choreographs chaotic reactions
Bass tones create reproducible patterns in unpredictable out-of-equilibrium systems
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ResearchTwists of orange odorant reveal smell secrets
Modifying octanal produces hard-to-get information about olfactory receptors
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BusinessQuestions surround deadly Beirut blast
Ammonium nitrate explosion that killed at least 135 appears to have been caused by poorly-stored cargo from an abandoned vessel
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ResearchNMR findings suggest solution to enhanced diffusion dispute
Energy release rate may solve the puzzle of why the phenomenon is seen in some systems but not others
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ResearchCommon inactive drug ingredients not as inert as thought
38 out of 639 excipients tested interact with toxicity-related proteins, some reaching levels that might produce unwanted effects
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ResearchYour new labmate does 700 reactions in eight days – and it’s a robot
Robotic chemist optimises water-splitting photocatalyst by working continuously for eight days even in complete darkness
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NewsExplainer: The science of Covid-19 testing
Rapidly-deployed methods are saving lives and easing minds
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BusinessScrambling and gambling to scale up Covid-19 medicines
Organisations work towards making billions of doses of products not yet proven to work
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FeatureThe difficulties of drugging our brains
Following the withdrawal of many large pharma companies from central nervous system research, Andy Extance finds new drug development patterns are emerging
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ResearchMolecular experiments hope to reveal new physics
Detecting extremely short-lived radium fluoride can explore standard model’s limits
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ResearchAmazing slow motion video catches hydrogen flames going fractal
The clean fuel can combust with potentially devastating beauty in narrow gaps when mixed with air