All articles by Katharine Sanderson – Page 5
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Sharing out the lab measurement billions
Agilent has updated over 40 per cent of its high pressure liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry ranges.
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Nanoencapsulation paves the way to perfumed pants
High street fashions and products to clean them could soon use nanotechnology to deliver distinctive fragrances.
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Science minister stands by predictions on China and India
UK Science minister Lord Sainsbury says rapid development in China based on cheap labour, not superior Chinese science.
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Toxic risk in bottled water?
Plastic bottles continuously leach antimony into drinking water, geochemists in Germany claim.
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Synthetic muscle powers hopes for building nanorobot
A molecular muscle with the power to move nanorobots large and small has been developed by researchers in the UK.
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Trees implicated in greenhouse gas conundrum
An unexpected discovery has shown that plants emit millions of tonnes of methane every year
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Chemistry World ed-board member gets gong
Chemistry World ed-board member Tony Ryan was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year honours list.
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On the hunt for a blockbuster
Swiss biopharmaceutical company Actelion had a good financial year in 2005 and is now hoping for a drug to take it to the next level of success. Katharine Sanderson reports
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Boost for UK nuclear research
The University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute is creating a £20 million nuclear research and teaching project.
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£10 million for medicinal chemists
Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research organisation, is tackling a medicinal chemistry crisis with a £10 million grant.
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Open access debated in Westminster
The open access controversy continues with a recent parliamentary debate, which revealed that the UK government is still not convinced the so-called author pays open access publishing model will work.
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Applications stretch out for wavy silicon
Artificial muscles and electronic skins for space bubbles will be easier to make now that materials scientists in the US have made stretchable and bendable electronic devices.
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Metallurgists' models predict alloy applications
Impurities could make soft metals the next-generation materials for jet-engine and nuclear-power plant turbines, claim US scientists.
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Update: Learned society states position on open access
The Royal Society claims that a critical open letter it received from a number of its members was written under false pretences.
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Carbon trading for economic growth
Carbon trading is becoming a major economic force, according to a survey across the EU.
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Animals' chemical detection system surprises researchers
Taste is transmitted from tongue to brain by the molecule adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), not serotonin as previously thought, scientists in the US claim.
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Designer molecules from a nanotech library
Nanoparticles have been coaxed to morph into colloidal spheres that give a choice of designer particles for use as dyes, catalysts or biolabels, claim US chemists.
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Anthropogenic effects revealed in aged ice cores
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are the highest they have been for 650 000 years, ice core data suggest.
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Learned society states position on open access
The Royal Society (RS) has accused open access supporters of trying to stop commercial publishers profiting from publicly funded research.