All articles by Katrina Krämer – Page 10
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Mélissa Nehme, Lucía Gallego and Joe Woods
Researchers are returning to labs in Switzerland with social distancing measures in place
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News
Statistician Adrian Smith to be next president of the Royal Society
Director of the Alan Turing Institute will take up the post in November
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Careers
How to lead a research team
By building skills to support your lab members, you lay the foundation for success
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Podcast
Smoke & Mirrors by Gemma Milne – Book club
Science journalist Gemma Milne’s first book promises to be a guide on how to recognise hype and how to cut through it
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Research
Yeast thriving in hydrogen hints at possibility of life on exoplanets
First demonstration of non-adapted microorganisms growing in 100% H2 shows that life could exist even under seemingly hostile conditions
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Solomon Derese
With a curfew in place across Kenya, one senior lecturer is spending his nights recording online classes
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Research
Molecular cages give amides a twist to increase reactivity up to 14 times
Squeezing amides into twisted conformation inside nanosized cages makes them easier to hydrolyse
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Zahra Jamshidi
Lockdown measures are easing in Iran, but there’s still no indication of when universities will reopen
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News
Online learning could save resource-strapped universities up to 80%
Courses are as effective for teaching Stem students as regular lectures, study finds
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News
UK’s largest funder aims to raise $8 billion in three weeks for coronavirus research
The Wellcome Trust’s Covid-Zero initiative calls on businesses to bridge the funding shortfall
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News
Pandemic pushes world’s largest cancer charity to cut research funding by £44 million
Cancer Research UK slashes grant money and national centres funds
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Research
Carbon tetrahedron squeezes phosphorus into smallest possible bond angle
Phosphorus manages to stabilise an ultra-strained tetrahedrane’s banana bonds
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Research
Mirror-symmetry breaking reaction’s mechanism solved after 25 years
Cube escape and enzyme-like binding mechanism behind idiosyncrasies of the autocatalytic asymmetry-amplifying Soai reaction
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Podcast
Ingredients by George Zaidan – Book club
We discuss George Zaidan’s Ingredients, a book that promises to make chemistry more fun than Hogwarts
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Research
New type of bond is the first to defy actinide contraction trend
Bonds discovered in metallacycles are unique to the 5f elements
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Research
Engineered neurons synthesise their own conductive polymer coating
Cell-specific electric stimulation could help be used with bioelectronic prostheses or treat diseases like epilepsy
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Research
Mechanical protecting group shields molecules from stress and strain
Catenane makes force-activated molecules more resistant mechanical bond breaking
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Article
Predatory journals’ reviewers mostly junior researchers from developing countries
The few scientists conducting peer review for predatory publishers are often of young academic age and come from lower-income regions
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News
Coronavirus fears see ACS Philadelphia cancelled with other big science conferences hit
International scientific gatherings are being postponed or cancelled in attempt to stop Covid-19’s spread
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Research
Iron rain every evening on ultra-hot giant exoplanet
Spectral data shows iron condensing on planet’s nightside