CHEMISTRY NEWS, RESEARCH AND OPINIONS Introduction: the coronavirus pandemic and the future. 2021-02-19T09:00:00+00:00. This series of Chemistry World reports is part of a forth coming e-book and hardback to be published by the NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work WHY MANUFACTURING COVID VACCINES AT SCALE IS HARD Why manufacturing Covid vaccines at scale is hard. The first Covid-19 vaccine candidate went into the arms of volunteers in Seattle in March 2020. It was an mRNA vaccine from PROTEIN-BASED COVID-19 VACCINES COULD OVERSHADOW RIVALS Protein-based Covid-19 vaccines could overshadow rivals. Although slower to develop, protein-based vaccines are well understood with a strong record of safety and effectiveness. There are FATAL EXPLOSION AT US PAINT AND POLYMERS PLANT An explosion and fire left one worker dead, five more hospitalised and a further four with minor injuries at a polymer resin plant at a paint factory in Columbus, US, on 8 April. The initial explosion THE ETHICAL DEBATE AROUND CRISPR The ethical debate around Crispr. The gene editing technique deserves its Nobel Prize, but we should continue to interrogate how it is used. Folk belief has it that Alfred Nobel founded his prizes REUSABLE BAMBOO MUGS LEACH DANGEROUS AMOUNTS OF Bamboo mugs are made from a melamine resin reinforced with bamboo fibres. While they are reusable, they are often marketed as eco-friendly, even though they aren’t biodegradable. Melamine resin SCIENTISTS UNEARTH ONE OF WORLD’S LARGEST HELIUM GAS Scientists unearth one of world’s largest helium gas deposits. A new approach to helium recovery should take the guesswork out of finding this vital medical resource. Scientists in the UK CARBON DIOXIDE: GREENHOUSE GAS OR USEFUL CHEMICAL Carbon dioxide can be a versatile chemical feedstock for a variety of industries - we just need to capture it and activate it. Climate change is perhaps the greatest environmental crisis that the JOHNSON MATTHEY IS TAKING CHARGE OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE Battery electric vehicle (BEV) technology is one of many methods being explored to meet these goals and deliver a less polluted future. And Johnson Matthey (JM), a global leader in applying science CHEMISTRY NEWS, RESEARCH AND OPINIONS Introduction: the coronavirus pandemic and the future. 2021-02-19T09:00:00+00:00. This series of Chemistry World reports is part of a forth coming e-book and hardback to be published by the NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work WHY MANUFACTURING COVID VACCINES AT SCALE IS HARD Why manufacturing Covid vaccines at scale is hard. The first Covid-19 vaccine candidate went into the arms of volunteers in Seattle in March 2020. It was an mRNA vaccine from PROTEIN-BASED COVID-19 VACCINES COULD OVERSHADOW RIVALS Protein-based Covid-19 vaccines could overshadow rivals. Although slower to develop, protein-based vaccines are well understood with a strong record of safety and effectiveness. There are FATAL EXPLOSION AT US PAINT AND POLYMERS PLANT An explosion and fire left one worker dead, five more hospitalised and a further four with minor injuries at a polymer resin plant at a paint factory in Columbus, US, on 8 April. The initial explosion THE ETHICAL DEBATE AROUND CRISPR The ethical debate around Crispr. The gene editing technique deserves its Nobel Prize, but we should continue to interrogate how it is used. Folk belief has it that Alfred Nobel founded his prizes REUSABLE BAMBOO MUGS LEACH DANGEROUS AMOUNTS OF Bamboo mugs are made from a melamine resin reinforced with bamboo fibres. While they are reusable, they are often marketed as eco-friendly, even though they aren’t biodegradable. Melamine resin SCIENTISTS UNEARTH ONE OF WORLD’S LARGEST HELIUM GAS Scientists unearth one of world’s largest helium gas deposits. A new approach to helium recovery should take the guesswork out of finding this vital medical resource. Scientists in the UK JOHNSON MATTHEY IS TAKING CHARGE OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE Battery electric vehicle (BEV) technology is one of many methods being explored to meet these goals and deliver a less polluted future. And Johnson Matthey (JM), a global leader in applying science CARBON DIOXIDE: GREENHOUSE GAS OR USEFUL CHEMICAL Carbon dioxide can be a versatile chemical feedstock for a variety of industries - we just need to capture it and activate it. Climate change is perhaps the greatest environmental crisis that the HINTS THAT CENTURY-OLD TB VACCINE OFFERS AN IMMUNE BOOST There are indications that BCG revaccination might protect against Covid-19. The latest results come from a Greek study published as an as yet un-peer reviewed preprint on medRxiv. BCG – Bacillus Calmette–Guérin – celebrates its 100th anniversary this summer and remains the only approved SCIENTISTS URGE CAUTION ON USE OF LATERAL FLOW TESTS TO Scientists urge caution on use of lateral flow tests to screen for Covid-19. A preliminary review of a lateral flow device (LFD) being used in mass Covid-19 screening in Liverpool, has led some scientists to express concerns that it is not fit for purpose. They have also taken issue with some of the government’s claims surrounding the

data.

NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work reported that amorphous perovskites exist, but the new work goes further in characterising them. The team made MORE METALLOMIMETIC CHEMISTRY FROM BORON The central atom in an umbrella-shaped boron cluster can bond like a transition metal in two different ways, new research shows. It adds to boron’s propensity for forming unusual bonds, including other recent studies showing that it can bond with sodium and neon. The partially

filled d-shell of

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MICROBES CONVERT WASTE PLASTIC INTO Scientists in the UK have genetically engineered Escherichia coli to transform plastic waste into vanillin. ‘Instead of simply recycling plastic waste into more plastic, what our system demonstrates for the first time is that you can use plastic as a feedstock for microbial cells and transform it into something with higher value and more industrial utility,’ says Stephen Wallace from the FROM CHEMISTRY TO REFEREE Most of the world was at a standstill last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown it brought, but US-based analytical chemist Kathryn Nesbitt, who had recently left academia to pursue a career as a professional soccer referee, thrived. In November, Nesbitt became the first woman ever to SMART TATTOOS ARE KEEPING TABS ON OUR HEALTH The freckles change colour in the sunlight before your skin does. In summer 2020, LogicInk soft launched its first tattoo – a UV sensor that monitors cumulative UV exposure. Initially dark blue, the tattoo turns bright pink when the wearer’s daily exposure has reached the level set by the World Health Organization for sensitive skin. ARE WE GIVING CHEMICALS BAD NAMES? Back in the distant past – that is, early 1990s – I sat in a dusty lecture theatre, listening to an organic chemistry lecturer as he wrote on a blackboard that rotated in an enormous loop. At some point he mentioned capric acid. He didn’t draw the structure, and I didn’t ask because I was SCIENTISTS UNEARTH ONE OF WORLD’S LARGEST HELIUM GAS Scientists unearth one of world’s largest helium gas deposits. A new approach to helium recovery should take the guesswork out of finding this vital medical resource. Scientists in the UK are about to pump up the world’s shrinking helium reserves after unearthing a vast helium gas field in Tanzania. YBCO - YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDE Meera Senthilingam. This week, get ready to conduct in a superior manner. Showing us how is Neil Withers Neil Withers. The story of yttrium barium copper oxide – YBCO for short – is the story of superconductivity, which goes back over 100 years to 1911. CHEMISTRY NEWS, RESEARCH AND OPINIONS Introduction: the coronavirus pandemic and the future. 2021-02-19T09:00:00+00:00. This series of Chemistry World reports is part of a forth coming e-book and hardback to be published by the NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work WHY MANUFACTURING COVID VACCINES AT SCALE IS HARD Why manufacturing Covid vaccines at scale is hard. The first Covid-19 vaccine candidate went into the arms of volunteers in Seattle in March 2020. It was an mRNA vaccine from PROTEIN-BASED COVID-19 VACCINES COULD OVERSHADOW RIVALS Protein-based Covid-19 vaccines could overshadow rivals. Although slower to develop, protein-based vaccines are well understood with a strong record of safety and effectiveness. There are FATAL EXPLOSION AT US PAINT AND POLYMERS PLANT An explosion and fire left one worker dead, five more hospitalised and a further four with minor injuries at a polymer resin plant at a paint factory in Columbus, US, on 8 April. The initial explosion THE ETHICAL DEBATE AROUND CRISPR The ethical debate around Crispr. The gene editing technique deserves its Nobel Prize, but we should continue to interrogate how it is used. Folk belief has it that Alfred Nobel founded his prizes REUSABLE BAMBOO MUGS LEACH DANGEROUS AMOUNTS OF Bamboo mugs are made from a melamine resin reinforced with bamboo fibres. While they are reusable, they are often marketed as eco-friendly, even though they aren’t biodegradable. Melamine resin SCIENTISTS UNEARTH ONE OF WORLD’S LARGEST HELIUM GAS Scientists unearth one of world’s largest helium gas deposits. A new approach to helium recovery should take the guesswork out of finding this vital medical resource. Scientists in the UK CARBON DIOXIDE: GREENHOUSE GAS OR USEFUL CHEMICAL Carbon dioxide can be a versatile chemical feedstock for a variety of industries - we just need to capture it and activate it. Climate change is perhaps the greatest environmental crisis that the JOHNSON MATTHEY IS TAKING CHARGE OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE Battery electric vehicle (BEV) technology is one of many methods being explored to meet these goals and deliver a less polluted future. And Johnson Matthey (JM), a global leader in applying science CHEMISTRY NEWS, RESEARCH AND OPINIONS Introduction: the coronavirus pandemic and the future. 2021-02-19T09:00:00+00:00. This series of Chemistry World reports is part of a forth coming e-book and hardback to be published by the NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work WHY MANUFACTURING COVID VACCINES AT SCALE IS HARD Why manufacturing Covid vaccines at scale is hard. The first Covid-19 vaccine candidate went into the arms of volunteers in Seattle in March 2020. It was an mRNA vaccine from PROTEIN-BASED COVID-19 VACCINES COULD OVERSHADOW RIVALS Protein-based Covid-19 vaccines could overshadow rivals. Although slower to develop, protein-based vaccines are well understood with a strong record of safety and effectiveness. There are FATAL EXPLOSION AT US PAINT AND POLYMERS PLANT An explosion and fire left one worker dead, five more hospitalised and a further four with minor injuries at a polymer resin plant at a paint factory in Columbus, US, on 8 April. The initial explosion THE ETHICAL DEBATE AROUND CRISPR The ethical debate around Crispr. The gene editing technique deserves its Nobel Prize, but we should continue to interrogate how it is used. Folk belief has it that Alfred Nobel founded his prizes REUSABLE BAMBOO MUGS LEACH DANGEROUS AMOUNTS OF Bamboo mugs are made from a melamine resin reinforced with bamboo fibres. While they are reusable, they are often marketed as eco-friendly, even though they aren’t biodegradable. Melamine resin SCIENTISTS UNEARTH ONE OF WORLD’S LARGEST HELIUM GAS Scientists unearth one of world’s largest helium gas deposits. A new approach to helium recovery should take the guesswork out of finding this vital medical resource. Scientists in the UK CARBON DIOXIDE: GREENHOUSE GAS OR USEFUL CHEMICAL Carbon dioxide can be a versatile chemical feedstock for a variety of industries - we just need to capture it and activate it. Climate change is perhaps the greatest environmental crisis that the JOHNSON MATTHEY IS TAKING CHARGE OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE Battery electric vehicle (BEV) technology is one of many methods being explored to meet these goals and deliver a less polluted future. And Johnson Matthey (JM), a global leader in applying science HINTS THAT CENTURY-OLD TB VACCINE OFFERS AN IMMUNE BOOST There are indications that BCG revaccination might protect against Covid-19. The latest results come from a Greek study published as an as yet un-peer reviewed preprint on medRxiv. BCG – Bacillus Calmette–Guérin – celebrates its 100th anniversary this summer and remains the only approved SCIENTISTS URGE CAUTION ON USE OF LATERAL FLOW TESTS TO Scientists urge caution on use of lateral flow tests to screen for Covid-19. A preliminary review of a lateral flow device (LFD) being used in mass Covid-19 screening in Liverpool, has led some scientists to express concerns that it is not fit for purpose. They have also taken issue with some of the government’s claims surrounding the

data.

NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work reported that amorphous perovskites exist, but the new work goes further in characterising them. The team made MORE METALLOMIMETIC CHEMISTRY FROM BORON The central atom in an umbrella-shaped boron cluster can bond like a transition metal in two different ways, new research shows. It adds to boron’s propensity for forming unusual bonds, including other recent studies showing that it can bond with sodium and neon. The partially

filled d-shell of

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MICROBES CONVERT WASTE PLASTIC INTO Scientists in the UK have genetically engineered Escherichia coli to transform plastic waste into vanillin. ‘Instead of simply recycling plastic waste into more plastic, what our system demonstrates for the first time is that you can use plastic as a feedstock for microbial cells and transform it into something with higher value and more industrial utility,’ says Stephen Wallace from the FROM CHEMISTRY TO REFEREE Most of the world was at a standstill last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown it brought, but US-based analytical chemist Kathryn Nesbitt, who had recently left academia to pursue a career as a professional soccer referee, thrived. In November, Nesbitt became the first woman ever to SMART TATTOOS ARE KEEPING TABS ON OUR HEALTH The freckles change colour in the sunlight before your skin does. In summer 2020, LogicInk soft launched its first tattoo – a UV sensor that monitors cumulative UV exposure. Initially dark blue, the tattoo turns bright pink when the wearer’s daily exposure has reached the level set by the World Health Organization for sensitive skin. ARE WE GIVING CHEMICALS BAD NAMES? Back in the distant past – that is, early 1990s – I sat in a dusty lecture theatre, listening to an organic chemistry lecturer as he wrote on a blackboard that rotated in an enormous loop. At some point he mentioned capric acid. He didn’t draw the structure, and I didn’t ask because I was SCIENTISTS UNEARTH ONE OF WORLD’S LARGEST HELIUM GAS Scientists unearth one of world’s largest helium gas deposits. A new approach to helium recovery should take the guesswork out of finding this vital medical resource. Scientists in the UK are about to pump up the world’s shrinking helium reserves after unearthing a vast helium gas field in Tanzania. YBCO - YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDE Meera Senthilingam. This week, get ready to conduct in a superior manner. Showing us how is Neil Withers Neil Withers. The story of yttrium barium copper oxide – YBCO for short – is the story of superconductivity, which goes back over 100 years to 1911. ALL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ARTICLES All Organic chemistry articles in Chemistry World. This site uses cookies from Google and other third parties to deliver its services, to personalise adverts and to analyse traffic. NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work HANDMADE: A SCIENTIST’S SEARCH FOR MEANING THROUGH MAKING A hands-on approach to materials science. This site uses cookies from Google and other third parties to deliver its services, to personalise adverts and to analyse traffic. PROTEIN-BASED COVID-19 VACCINES COULD OVERSHADOW RIVALS Yet protein-based vaccines are well established, and will likely work. The most advanced for Covid-19 is from Novavax, based on the entire Sars-CoV-2 spike protein plus an immune system-activating CHEMISTRY AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES The world faces huge challenges in the coming decades. It’s not just about climate change, it’s about the environment more generally and how societies must learn to do everything sustainably AIR POLLUTION MODEL PREDICTS 6.6 MILLION DEATHS BY 2050 Almost seven million people could die each year around the world because of outdoor air pollution unless strict emission controls are introduced, suggests a new study based on a global atmospheric THE ETHICAL DEBATE AROUND CRISPR Folk belief has it that Alfred Nobel founded his prizes out of guilt for having built his fortune on the destructive power of dynamite. It seems more likely that it was a case of image management: THE LIKENS-NICKERSON APPARATUS A few months ago, someone sent me a picture of a piece of glassware that completely stumped me. Resembling a cormorant drying its outstretched, but slightly unsymmetrical, wings, the device was REUSABLE BAMBOO MUGS LEACH DANGEROUS AMOUNTS OF Coffee cups made from resin containing bamboo fibre – often sold as bamboo mugs – leach so much harmful formaldehyde and melamine into drinks that the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment JOHNSON MATTHEY IS TAKING CHARGE OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE Long-term exposure to air pollution is currently the largest environmental threat to human health. It is estimated to cause around 40,000 deaths a year in the UK.The transport sector is a major ALL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ARTICLES All Organic chemistry articles in Chemistry World. This site uses cookies from Google and other third parties to deliver its services, to personalise adverts and to analyse traffic. NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work HANDMADE: A SCIENTIST’S SEARCH FOR MEANING THROUGH MAKING A hands-on approach to materials science. This site uses cookies from Google and other third parties to deliver its services, to personalise adverts and to analyse traffic. PROTEIN-BASED COVID-19 VACCINES COULD OVERSHADOW RIVALS Yet protein-based vaccines are well established, and will likely work. The most advanced for Covid-19 is from Novavax, based on the entire Sars-CoV-2 spike protein plus an immune system-activating CHEMISTRY AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES The world faces huge challenges in the coming decades. It’s not just about climate change, it’s about the environment more generally and how societies must learn to do everything sustainably AIR POLLUTION MODEL PREDICTS 6.6 MILLION DEATHS BY 2050 Almost seven million people could die each year around the world because of outdoor air pollution unless strict emission controls are introduced, suggests a new study based on a global atmospheric THE ETHICAL DEBATE AROUND CRISPR Folk belief has it that Alfred Nobel founded his prizes out of guilt for having built his fortune on the destructive power of dynamite. It seems more likely that it was a case of image management: THE LIKENS-NICKERSON APPARATUS A few months ago, someone sent me a picture of a piece of glassware that completely stumped me. Resembling a cormorant drying its outstretched, but slightly unsymmetrical, wings, the device was REUSABLE BAMBOO MUGS LEACH DANGEROUS AMOUNTS OF Coffee cups made from resin containing bamboo fibre – often sold as bamboo mugs – leach so much harmful formaldehyde and melamine into drinks that the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment JOHNSON MATTHEY IS TAKING CHARGE OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE Long-term exposure to air pollution is currently the largest environmental threat to human health. It is estimated to cause around 40,000 deaths a year in the UK.The transport sector is a major CHEMISTRY NEWS, RESEARCH AND OPINIONS Introduction: the coronavirus pandemic and the future. 2021-02-19T09:00:00+00:00. This series of Chemistry World reports is part of a forth coming e-book and hardback to be published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The book was motivated by a desire on the part of the editors and the authors to produce a body of information on the new and deadly coronavirus about which the world was largely HINTS THAT CENTURY-OLD TB VACCINE OFFERS AN IMMUNE BOOST There are indications that BCG revaccination might protect against Covid-19. The latest results come from a Greek study published as an as yet un-peer reviewed preprint on medRxiv. BCG – Bacillus Calmette–Guérin – celebrates its 100th anniversary this summer and remains the only approved ALL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ARTICLES All Organic chemistry articles in Chemistry World. This site uses cookies from Google and other third parties to deliver its services, to personalise adverts and to analyse traffic. WHY MANUFACTURING COVID VACCINES AT SCALE IS HARD The first Covid-19 vaccine candidate went into the arms of volunteers in Seattle in March 2020. It was an mRNA vaccine from Moderna. The mRNA candidate from BioNTech and Pfizer followed in April. ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY APPOINTS NEW PERMANENT CHIEF Helen Pain has been appointed permanent chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry, effective immediately.She replaces Robert Parker, who took up the role almost 10 years ago. Pain became the organisation’s interim chief executive in January 2020, when Parker temporarily made changes to his working hours and announced he would go part-time to accommodate a double hip replacement ARE WE GIVING CHEMICALS BAD NAMES? Back in the distant past – that is, early 1990s – I sat in a dusty lecture theatre, listening to an organic chemistry lecturer as he wrote on a blackboard that rotated in an enormous loop. At some point he mentioned capric acid. He didn’t draw the structure, and I didn’t ask because I was FROM CHEMISTRY TO REFEREE Most of the world was at a standstill last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown it brought, but US-based analytical chemist Kathryn Nesbitt, who had recently left academia to pursue a career as a professional soccer referee, thrived. In November, Nesbitt became the first woman ever to MORE METALLOMIMETIC CHEMISTRY FROM BORON The central atom in an umbrella-shaped boron cluster can bond like a transition metal in two different ways, new research shows. It adds to boron’s propensity for forming unusual bonds, including other recent studies showing that it can bond with sodium and neon. The partially

filled d-shell of

SEARCHING FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE RESIN MATERIALS Paul Jones was born into the chemical industry, and resin manufacturing in particular – his father worked at SRL Synthetic Resins in Liverpool, UK, while his mother worked at Glaxo (now part of GlaxoSmithKline). ‘As a child I was taken into these different factories,’ he says. ‘Times have changed I was used to the distinctive smell of styrene and the sweet aroma of polyester from a GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MICROBES CONVERT WASTE PLASTIC INTO Scientists in the UK have genetically engineered Escherichia coli to transform plastic waste into vanillin. ‘Instead of simply recycling plastic waste into more plastic, what our system demonstrates for the first time is that you can use plastic as a feedstock for microbial cells and transform it into something with higher value and more industrial utility,’ says Stephen Wallace from the CHEMISTRY NEWS, RESEARCH AND OPINIONS Introduction: the coronavirus pandemic and the future. 2021-02-19T09:00:00+00:00. This series of Chemistry World reports is part of a forth coming e-book and hardback to be published by the ALL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ARTICLES Chemists reconsider the impact of through-space effects. 7 April 2021. Through-space electrostatic effects are shown to be dominant in certain radical reactions, where previously through-bond NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work PROTEIN-BASED COVID-19 VACCINES COULD OVERSHADOW RIVALS Protein-based Covid-19 vaccines could overshadow rivals. Although slower to develop, protein-based vaccines are well understood with a strong record of safety and effectiveness. There are HANDMADE: A SCIENTIST’S SEARCH FOR MEANING THROUGH MAKING Conceived and researched before the Covid-19 pandemic, Handmade explores the connections between humans and materials. Each chapter centres on one of these substances. The first chapter is THE ETHICAL DEBATE AROUND CRISPR The ethical debate around Crispr. The gene editing technique deserves its Nobel Prize, but we should continue to interrogate how it is used. Folk belief has it that Alfred Nobel founded his prizes THE LIKENS-NICKERSON APPARATUS Gail Nickerson (pictured) and Sam Likens. American chemists (1938– and 1923–2006). Inventors of a hop oil extractor. A few months ago,

someone sent me a

AIR POLLUTION MODEL PREDICTS 6.6 MILLION DEATHS BY 2050 Almost seven million people could die each year around the world because of outdoor air pollution unless strict emission controls are introduced, suggests a new study based on a global atmospheric JOHNSON MATTHEY IS TAKING CHARGE OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE Battery electric vehicle (BEV) technology is one of many methods being explored to meet these goals and deliver a less polluted future. And Johnson Matthey (JM), a global leader in applying science REUSABLE BAMBOO MUGS LEACH DANGEROUS AMOUNTS OF Bamboo mugs are made from a melamine resin reinforced with bamboo fibres. While they are reusable, they are often marketed as eco-friendly, even though they aren’t biodegradable. Melamine resin CHEMISTRY NEWS, RESEARCH AND OPINIONS Introduction: the coronavirus pandemic and the future. 2021-02-19T09:00:00+00:00. This series of Chemistry World reports is part of a forth coming e-book and hardback to be published by the ALL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ARTICLES Chemists reconsider the impact of through-space effects. 7 April 2021. Through-space electrostatic effects are shown to be dominant in certain radical reactions, where previously through-bond NEW FAMILY OF GLASSES MADE FROM MOLTEN HYBRID ORGANIC Crystalline materials have attracted much attention in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite studies, so an international team of researchers shifted to non-crystalline ones. Previous work PROTEIN-BASED COVID-19 VACCINES COULD OVERSHADOW RIVALS Protein-based Covid-19 vaccines could overshadow rivals. Although slower to develop, protein-based vaccines are well understood with a strong record of safety and effectiveness. There are HANDMADE: A SCIENTIST’S SEARCH FOR MEANING THROUGH MAKING Conceived and researched before the Covid-19 pandemic, Handmade explores the connections between humans and materials. Each chapter centres on one of these substances. The first chapter is THE ETHICAL DEBATE AROUND CRISPR The ethical debate around Crispr. The gene editing technique deserves its Nobel Prize, but we should continue to interrogate how it is used. Folk belief has it that Alfred Nobel founded his prizes THE LIKENS-NICKERSON APPARATUS Gail Nickerson (pictured) and Sam Likens. American chemists (1938– and 1923–2006). Inventors of a hop oil extractor. A few months ago,

someone sent me a

AIR POLLUTION MODEL PREDICTS 6.6 MILLION DEATHS BY 2050 Almost seven million people could die each year around the world because of outdoor air pollution unless strict emission controls are introduced, suggests a new study based on a global atmospheric JOHNSON MATTHEY IS TAKING CHARGE OF THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE Battery electric vehicle (BEV) technology is one of many methods being explored to meet these goals and deliver a less polluted future. And Johnson Matthey (JM), a global leader in applying science REUSABLE BAMBOO MUGS LEACH DANGEROUS AMOUNTS OF Bamboo mugs are made from a melamine resin reinforced with bamboo fibres. While they are reusable, they are often marketed as eco-friendly, even though they aren’t biodegradable. Melamine resin CHEMISTRY NEWS, RESEARCH AND OPINIONS Introduction: the coronavirus pandemic and the future. 2021-02-19T09:00:00+00:00. This series of Chemistry World reports is part of a forth coming e-book and hardback to be published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The book was motivated by a desire on the part of the editors and the authors to produce a body of information on the new and deadly coronavirus about which the world was largely HINTS THAT CENTURY-OLD TB VACCINE OFFERS AN IMMUNE BOOST There are indications that BCG revaccination might protect against Covid-19. The latest results come from a Greek study published as an as yet un-peer reviewed preprint on medRxiv. BCG – Bacillus Calmette–Guérin – celebrates its 100th anniversary this summer and remains the only approved ALL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ARTICLES Chemists reconsider the impact of through-space effects. 7 April 2021. Through-space electrostatic effects are shown to be dominant in certain radical reactions, where previously through-bond interactions were thought to determine reaction rate. Research. WHY MANUFACTURING COVID VACCINES AT SCALE IS HARD Why manufacturing Covid vaccines at scale is hard. The first Covid-19 vaccine candidate went into the arms of volunteers in Seattle in March 2020. It was an mRNA vaccine from Moderna. The mRNA candidate from BioNTech and Pfizer followed in April. By December 2020, these two had become the first vaccines to be approved by the US Food and Drug FROM CHEMISTRY TO REFEREE Most of the world was at a standstill last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown it brought, but US-based analytical chemist Kathryn Nesbitt, who had recently left academia to pursue a career as a professional soccer referee, thrived. In November, Nesbitt became the first woman ever to ARE WE GIVING CHEMICALS BAD NAMES? Back in the distant past – that is, early 1990s – I sat in a dusty lecture theatre, listening to an organic chemistry lecturer as he wrote on a blackboard that rotated in an enormous loop. At some point he mentioned capric acid. He didn’t draw the structure, and I didn’t ask because I was ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY APPOINTS NEW PERMANENT CHIEF Helen Pain has been appointed permanent chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry, effective immediately.She replaces Robert Parker, who took up the role almost 10 years ago. Pain became the organisation’s interim chief executive in January 2020, when Parker temporarily made changes to his working hours and announced he would go part-time to accommodate a double hip replacement GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MICROBES CONVERT WASTE PLASTIC INTO Scientists in the UK have genetically engineered Escherichia coli to transform plastic waste into vanillin. ‘Instead of simply recycling plastic waste into more plastic, what our system demonstrates for the first time is that you can use plastic as a feedstock for microbial cells and transform it into something with higher value and more industrial utility,’ says Stephen Wallace from the CHEMISTRY AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES The role of chemistry in achieving environmental sustainability should be highlighted to students. The world faces huge challenges in the coming decades. It’s not just about climate change, it’s about the environment more generally and how societies must learn to do everything sustainably and although many of the changes we’ll need

to

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EXPERIENCING THE IMPOSSIBLE: THE SCIENCE OF MAGIC Jonelle Harvey may not be sold on magic tricks, but Gustav Kuhn’s book has given her food for thought

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EXHIBITION: AI: MORE THAN HUMAN The Barbican Centre’s AI: More than Human exhibition explores AI’s origins in history and culture, and delves into the ways the technology is set to change the way we think about intelligence in the

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THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE: DEFENDING SCIENCE FROM DENIAL, FRAUD, AND

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KATHLEEN LONSDALE’S CRYSTALLOGRAPHY TABLES No princes were needed on the quest for structure factors PLUTONIUM: THE ELEMENT FACTORY Glenn Seaborg’s lab at Berkeley discovered plutonium – an element with uses beyond the deadly one we know well

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A reporter from Alchemistry World reveals the unpleasant secret behind The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus DRIVING DISCOVERY THROUGH DEBATE Voice of The Royal Society of Chemistry Celebrating more than a century of the Faraday Discussions

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