All articles by Emma Stoye – Page 21
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Business
Samsung to sell chemicals businesses to Lotte
Korean conglomerate Lotte will pay £1.7 billion for stake in Samsung’s chemicals businesses
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ResearchUnnatural nanoreactor puts click reaction in the spotlight
Engineered nanopore reveals long-lived ‘click chemistry’ intermediate
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ResearchGM tomato is a factory for healthy nutrients
Researchers hope resveratrol-rich tomatoes will give GM food a healthier image
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ResearchRosetta detects oxygen on comet 67P
Molecular oxygen has been detected in the coma of a comet for the first time
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NewsMalaria vaccine pilot studies recommended by WHO
GlaxoSmithKline’s RTS,S vaccine must undergo further testing before being rolled out, says World Health Organization panel
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NewsRoyal Institution to sell off books to pay debts
UK science association hopes to make £750,000 by auctioning 90 historical texts from its library
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ResearchAncient graphite may push start of life back by 300 million years
Discovery of biologically forged carbon could rewrite textbooks on the earliest organisms
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ResearchCobalt could cut costs for pharma ingredients
Carboxylic acids and esters hydrogenated without the need for expensive precious metals
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NewsUniversity renovations reveal antique US chemistry classroom
Builders discover remains of a 19th century lab hidden behind a wall
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News
Scientists launch campaign to oppose UK exit from EU
Anti-Brexit group argues EU membership is essential for UK’s science base
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NewsChemistry Nobel laureate Richard Heck dies
Heck developed palladium-catalysed cross coupling reactions that revolutionised organic chemistry
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NewsCall for collaboration to take on resistance
Better partnerships across research, industry and policy are needed to tackle antimicrobial resistance, say research leaders
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Business
Drax pulls out of carbon capture power station plans
Energy giant says government policies have slashed income and made carbon capture project too costly
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Research3D printer uses gel matrix to tie the knot
Complex 3D patterns can be ‘written’ in a gel that switches between solid and liquid states
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NewsChemistry Ig Nobel goes to ‘un-boiled' egg
Australian scientists pick up ‘improbable research’ prize for work on re-folding denatured proteins
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Business
Cancer Drugs Fund axes 23 treatments
The UK government has cut down the list of cancer therapies it will pay for through the Cancer Drugs Fund
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NewsStorm clouds gather for UK science as government weighs cuts
Science campaign groups warn against radical cost-cutting and research council restructuring as spending review nears
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ResearchBiotech breakthrough as yeast makes painkillers from sugar
Yields are still tiny but hopes are high that it could cut production costs
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NewsVaccine raises hopes of an end to Ebola
Trial shows vaccine provides complete protection and points way to fast-tracking medical research