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Chemistry

July 2024

  • JAPAN-HEALTH-SCIENCE-STATINS-ENDO-OBIT<br>This undated photo released by Jiji Press on June 11, 2024 shows professor Akira Endo from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Tokyo. Endo, the Japanese biochemist whose pioneering research on fungi led to the development of cholesterol-lowering statins, has died at the age of 90, Japanese media reported on June 11, 2024. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)

    Akira Endo obituary

    Japanese biochemist whose work on fungal extracts led to the creation of the first statin

June 2024

  • ‘The scientist almost fell off his chair’ … Dan Ashby tests for PCBs – then finds off-the-scale levels of chemicals banned since 1981.

    ‘Please come and see me because I’ll be dead soon’: how Michael Sheen got sucked into a forever chemicals exposé

  • Overhead view of an urn with reddish-brown liquid in it

    Oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form found in urn with Roman remains

May 2024

  • Top view of a scientific looking contraption that holds a container of ground coffee beans

    ‘Like drinking a music festival’: this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?

    Australian scientists have developed a method of brewing coffee by blasting ground beans with sound waves – and it produces a powerful cup

March 2024

  • Derek Shaw

    Other lives
    Derek Shaw obituary

    Other lives: Expert in nuclear magnetic resonance whose work helped with the development and spread of MRI scanners
  • Artist's impression of boiling sea

    Science Weekly
    A waterworld with a boiling ocean and the end of dark matter? The week in science – podcast

    Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new theory challenging the existence of dark matter to an alarming study about the possible impact of microplastics on our health and a glimpse of a ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ deep in space

    • Other lives
      Pete MacGregor obituary

    • Forensic spray using jellyfish protein could speed up fingerprint detection

    • ‘Doing something for the real world’: how 1,000 UK schoolkids helped crack a crystals conundrum

February 2024

  • An image of brain scans with a syringe on top of them.

    Is the 100-year old TB vaccine a new weapon against Alzheimer’s?

  • Grapefruit

    Brief letters
    When grapefruit mustn’t be your cup of tea

  • china teacup and saucer with a plate of biscuits

    Deja brew: chemistry professor’s latest advice on tea drinking – try grapefruit

  • Katalin Kariko in 1989 Katalin Karikó, senior vice president and head of RNA protein replacement therapies at BioNTech. Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó

    Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó review – real-life lessons in chemistry

January 2024

  • Someone pours hot black tea into a white cup from a restaurant-style kettle

    ‘Outrageous’ tea recipe involving pinch of salt draws US embassy comment

    American chemist inspires moment of diplomatic levity with controversial brewing suggestions

December 2023

  • Sir Humphry Davy sitting on a red chair with his left hand close to his chin

    Reams of secret poetry by pioneering British scientist finally come to light

    Sir Humphry Davy’s unpublished verse – including one published below for the first time – was found in notebooks alongside details of his groundbreaking experiments
  • Man picking grapes

    Researchers create AI tool with a nose for fraudulent wine

    Machine learning used to analyse compounds in a bottle of wine and trace them back to estate
  • Household tap with water coming out of it

    ‘Forever chemical’ in English tap water samples carcinogenic, WHO rules

    Exclusive: Decision to categorise PFOA as linked to cancer in humans by World Health Organization increases pressure on UK government

November 2023

  • The artificial leaves were tested on the River Cam in and around Cambridge including sites such as the Bridge of Sighs.

    Floating factories of artificial leaves could make green fuel for jets and ships

  • Frances Arnold won the Nobel and technology prizes for her work on directed evolution of enzymes.

    ‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium Technology prize

October 2023

  • A handout illustration of perfectly spherical explosion, called a kilonova<br>A perfectly spherical explosion, called a kilonova, that followed the merger of two very defense objects called neutron stars - remnants of massive stars after supernova explosions Ð that was observed 140-150 million light-years away from Earth is seen in this handout illustration obtained by Reuters on February 15, 2023. Albert Sneppen/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.

    Creation of rare heavy elements witnessed in neutron-star collision

    Space telescope used to monitor event 1bn light years away that sheds light on how unusual elements are formed
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