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RSC takes top UK business award

22 April 2013 News and Analysis

Society is commended for substantial growth in its overseas earnings

Jari Kinaret: Flagging up graphene

27 March 2013 News and Analysis

The head of Europe's €1 billion graphene flagship talks to Chemistry World about nurturing a disruptive technology

Bacteria clean-up after Gulf of Mexico disaster

19 February 2013 News and Analysis

Microbial communities helped to sink Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and might one day be an alternative to toxic dispersants

Is BPA just an 'innocent bystander'?

17 February 2013 Research

Analysis questions whether studies linking bisphenol A to chronic diseases like diabetes can be trusted

Drugs to blame for anti-social fish

14 February 2013 Research

Trace amounts of anti-anxiety drugs can alter fishes' behaviour raising concerns about their effects on entire food webs

Richard III body found under Leicester car park

4 February 2013 News and Analysis

DNA analysis confirms skeleton is remains of last Plantagenet king

Graphene hits the funding jackpot

29 January 2013 News and Analysis

Consortium seeking European funding to investigate the material wins €1 billion in emerging technologies competition

Campaign to save Royal Institution's London home

23 January 2013 News and Analysis

Scientists and the public rally to stop the sale of the building that housed Davy's and Faraday's labs after charity runs into financial difficulties

US EPA head to step down

3 January 2013 News and Analysis

Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is expected to leave her post later this month

RSC acquires rights to Merck Index

17 December 2012 News and Analysis

The society plans to expand the online presence of 'chemistry's constant companion'

Autumn statement science boost to offset cuts

6 December 2012 News and Analysis

Extra £600 million announced for research infrastructure

Arafat exhumed in poisoning probe

27 November 2012 News and Analysis

An international team of scientists are taking samples from the former Palestinian leader's body to try to discover what killed him

British Antarctic Survey merger binned

2 November 2012 News and Analysis

Cost saving plans are scrapped after outcry by politicians and scientists

Slump in confidence hits EU chemical industry

11 October 2012 Business

Latest figures show that production for the first seven months of this year will be down 2.4% on the same time last year

Forensic lab error led to miscarriage of justice

5 October 2012 News and Analysis

Man held on rape charge for five months after contamination of DNA samples

Phenomenal Olympic science legacy (or is that sustainability?)

1 August 2012 News and Analysis

Olympics doping lab to be re-purposed for phenome research

FDA green lights new obesity drug

28 June 2012 News and Analysis

Agency approval for prescription only obesity drug is first for 13 years

Roche cuts 1000 jobs with US R&D site closure

26 June 2012 Business

Streamlining strategy will see oncology and virology research moved to Switzerland and Germany

The death of UK science?

16 May 2012 News and Analysis

Campaign group launches with PR stunt to highlight perceived failings at physical sciences research council

Science's role in a sustainable economy

26 April 2012 News and Analysis

There are no sustainability 'silver bullets' and science will have to work within social and economic frameworks to change the world, a new report claims

Non-animal testing

20 April 2012 News and Analysis

L'Oréal has joined the US EPA to help develop alternatives to animal toxicity tests

Controversial physical sciences shaping comes to a close

30 March 2012 News Archive

The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has finished its research funding assessment programme

Cutbacks threaten Lords' oversight of UK science

28 March 2012 News and Analysis

The number of inquiries carried out by the House of Lords science and technology select committee could be drastically reduced

Cutbacks threaten Lords' oversight of UK science

28 March 2012 News Archive

Cost saving measures could see inquiries by the Lords science and technology select committee halved

Cyclotron remedy for imaging isotope shortages

22 February 2012 News Archive

Medical isotope shortages could be a thing of the past as a breakthrough will allow hospitals to make their own

Fracking water pollution overstated

20 February 2012 News Archive

US researchers determine that groundwater contamination at fracking sites is the result of poor waste management and not the fracking process

NERC asks institutes to weed out poor grants

3 February 2012 News Archive

Research council plans to improve grant success rates by getting universities to screen out 'uncompetitive' proposals

Shell shutters UK R&D site

18 January 2012 News Archive

Fuels and additives technology centre to close in 2014 with research being moved to overseas sites

UK government proposes science universities

5 January 2012 News Archive

New type of university would receive no public money with funding to come from businesses

Autumn windfall for UK science and industry

30 November 2011 News Archive

Measures to stimulate innovation and R&D are broadly welcomed by industry and science

UK government pulls the plug on CCS plant

24 October 2011 News Archive

The UK's first large scale carbon capture and storage scheme has been binned with the government blaming technical problems

Chemists vent anger at funding body in letters to UK government

16 August 2011 News Archive

More than 200 top chemists have signed two letters complaining of their frustration at how the EPSRC makes funding decisions

Merck continues restructuring and cuts 13,000 jobs

3 August 2011 News Archive

The US drug giant plans to make savings of $4.6 billion by the end of 2015

UK chemistry threatened by funding squeeze

18 July 2011 News Archive

The international competitiveness of UK chemistry may be damaged by funding cuts, department heads warn