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AstraZeneca announce new UK hub

19 June 2013 Business

Restructuring will see all AstraZeneca R&D at new location close to University of Cambridge research

Probe into deadly explosion at US plant

19 June 2013 Business

Blast killed two workers and injured another 76

Phosphoric Acid

19 June 2013 Podcast | Compounds

Lars Öhrström on phosphoric acid: Crucial for crops and DNA's backbone, it's the energy currency of the biological world

OLEDs ditch the heavy metals

19 June 2013 Research

Replacing iridium and platinum in smart phone screens could make them cheaper and more environmentally friendly

Stirring microwave synthesis

19 June 2013 Research

New magnetic stir bar designed for narrow microwave synthesis vessels

Goeey secret of naked mole rat's cancer resistance revealed

19 June 2013 Research

Scientists hopeful that strategy can be 'borrowed' to help keep humans tumour-free

Hydrogen generation using sunlight

18 June 2013 Research

First evidence for a light-driven water–gas shift reaction

New evidence links air pollution with autism

18 June 2013 Research

Exposure to high levels of diesel exhaust and airborne metals may double the chance of a pregnant woman giving birth to a child with autism

Switching chirality in amino acids

17 June 2013 Research

Cheap nickel catalysis offers alternative to expensive enzymatic resolution

First vertebrate fluorescent protein discovered

17 June 2013 Research

The UnaG protein from Unagi eels could be the basis for a simple test to check on liver health check

Forget tax credits, fund applied research

17 June 2013 News and Analysis

Thinktank says hundreds of millions of pounds of tax breaks are going to city business firms and would be better spent elsewhere

Pfizer and Takeda win $2.15bn in patent payout

14 June 2013 Business

Teva and Sun fined for selling generics before patent expiry

Companies urged to publish hidden clinical trial data

14 June 2013 Business

Researchers could acquire data and publish themselves if firms refuse

GSK fires Chinese R&D head in data investigation

14 June 2013 Business

Company is retracting a 2010 study in which data were ‘misrepresented’

Protons wander freely in icy gas giant cores

14 June 2013 Research

Under intense pressures like those found on Uranus or Neptune ice may behave in very different ways, even giving rise to magnetic fields

Plumage pattern revealed in 150 million-year-old bird

14 June 2013 Research

Chemical mapping could help unpick the biology of extinct animals

Former editor of Chemistry in Britain dies

13 June 2013 News and Analysis

Peter Farago, who edited Chemistry World’s predecessor for over 20 years, dies after a long illness

Diabetes breath test overcomes humidity

13 June 2013 Research

Low-cost sensor for detecting acetone in exhaled air

Bacterium breaks down grass for biofuel

13 June 2013 Research

Microbe that anaerobically degrades plant biomass could help bring down the cost of biofuels

Cyanoacrylate

12 June 2013 Podcast | Compounds

It repairs objects, heals wounds and fights crime. It puts the ‘super’ in superglue. Emma Stoye introduces cyanoacrylate

An end to chasing molecules that were never there?

12 June 2013 Research

Simple method for identifying incorrect structures of organic molecules due to NMR misassignments

'Scientific censorship' hamstringing psychoactive drug research

12 June 2013 News and Analysis

New treatments for psychological disorders are being held back by government controls on recreational drugs

No small success

12 June 2013 Feature

Chad Mirkin has spun out his nanotechnology research into several companies

Formulation and function

11 June 2013 The Insider

Working between the R&D lab and the supermarket shelf, formulation chemists turn prospects into products. Yfke Hager takes a look at their work