All articles by Laura Howes – Page 4
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ResearchSwitchable catenane ready for data storage
A highly unusual multi-radical structure that has up to four unpaired electrons, yet remains stable, could find uses in batteries and computer memory
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Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA?
Cambridge scientists turn DNA into a data storage medium and use it to store all of Shakespeare's sonnets
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NewsPost-publication peer review blog launches
Chemists hope forum will be a place where published synthetic methods are scrutinised and lab checks are crowdsourced
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Nanotube fibre production in a spin
Strong, long and conductive: improved recipe means wet-spun carbon nanotube fibres can compete
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ResearchRotaxane mimics ribosome to spin out peptides
Bio-inspired molecular machine can piece together three amino acids
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Golden rice trial breached ethical guidelines
Three Chinese researchers sacked after failing to tell participants parents that rice was genetically modified
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Antifreeze protein's watery dance
How the proteins that keep animals alive in -30°C temperatures do their job
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Digging up ancient drug formulations
An analysis of a medicine discovered on a second century BC shipwreck has revealed that the active ingredients are still in use today
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How do these edges glow
Two-dimensional crystals of tungsten disulfide show strong photoluminescence at the edges
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Hunted becomes the hunter in DNA ecosystem
Scientists in Japan create a predator–prey simulation using nothing more than small pieces of DNA
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New European universities ranking initiative
U-Multirank is intended to be more fair by taking into account a greater number of performance factors
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DNA hydrogel has a long memory
Metamaterial collapses out of water and behaves like a liquid, but pop it back in water and up it springs just like before
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Engineered enzyme performs cyclopropanation by carbene transfer
Directed evolution modifies enzyme to perform synthetically important reactions
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Cutting edge chemistry in 2012
What discoveries caused the biggest buzz in chemistry labs in 2012? Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year’s crop of chemical science papers
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Home office to help student job seekers
Foreign PhD students will get a 12 month grace period to find a job after end of course
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Spray and peel forensic sampling
Lift-off strippable coatings can help analyse surface residues
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FOI exemptions for unpublished research
UK government agrees to amend the Freedom of Information Act so that universities are not compelled to release unpublished data
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Antimalarials should target female parasites
Study suggests that when it comes to malaria parasites, females are the weakest link
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M&S nano fears for recycled packaging
Ambitious recycling commitment by UK grocer could be threatened by fear of nanoinks
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Smartphones as environmental sensors
New project will measure personal exposure to pollutants with GPS-enabled smartphones