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Microreactors tame osmium tetroxide

30 April 2013 Research

Nanobrush-lined silicone channels spare chemists from deadly fumes, while achieving high dihydroxylation and oxidative cleavage conversions

Electron flashes catch organics in the act

17 April 2013 Research

‘Beautiful’ diffraction movie shows small molecule superconductor candidate transition from insulator to metal phases

Split water splitting raises green hydrogen hopes

14 April 2013 Research

Two-stage electrolysis releases hydrogen on demand separately from oxygen, enabling cheaper renewable energy production

Court convicts ex-Aptuit researcher over drug data

21 March 2013 Business

Altered liquid chromatography results at Scottish site lead to first successful good lab practice prosecution

Tiny insights

20 March 2013 Feature

Scientists are adopting a range of 3D imaging techniques to reveal structural secrets. Andy Extance looks inside their work

University cleared, student recovering after poisoning

13 March 2013 News and Analysis

Seemingly deliberate thallium and arsenic exposure leaves Southampton PhD chemist fighting nerve damage

'Plasmonic smart dust' conjures kinetics clues

12 March 2013 Research

Silica-coated gold nanoparticles enable versatile optical sensing method to track reaction kinetics

UK considers patent rule change for trials

4 March 2013 Business

Government to change law that organisations say makes the country less appealing as a location for clinical trials

Chemical transport defines ‘Goldilocks’ cell size

28 February 2013 Research

Too big and macromolecules like proteins and DNA have to travel too far, too small and they’re too crowded

Time slicing captures molecular birth pictures

22 February 2013 Research

Reaction-timescale x-ray images of I₂ formation push instrumental and interpretation boundaries

Insulator pile shows solar potential

19 February 2013 Research

LaVO3/SrTiO3 system promises to bring better electron-hole separation and native electrodes to photovoltaics

Phenome Centre goes for gold

15 February 2013 Feature

Andy Extance finds out how British researchers are turning Olympic anti-doping facilities into a world-leading facility

Enzyme draws nanopore protein sequencing nearer

3 February 2013 Research

Californian team hope changes in current as unfoldase drags proteins through a pore could identify individual amino acids

India pushes for emergency drug licences

21 January 2013 Business

Government looks set to force licensing of three patented cancer drugs

Crystals aim to light up dark matter

9 January 2013 Research

Scaling calcium tungstate detector up to 500kg will improve chances of finding Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)

Phenome centre move ends GSK role

8 January 2013 News and Analysis

‘Olympic legacy’ centre to shift to dedicated Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital facility

Overcoming small obstacles

19 December 2012 Feature

Andy Extance looks at nanofabrication methods combining printing and lithography

Chemists cull compounds using ‘intuition’

30 November 2012 Research

Medicinal chemists apparently decided which fragments should be in their screening collection using surprisingly few parameters

Molecular muscle machines bulk up

26 October 2012 Research

Iron co-ordination wrestles daisy-chain rotaxane molecular machines into a muscle-mimicking polymer

RNA teams up to beat selfish rivals

18 October 2012 Research

Ribozymes that cooperate outdo autocatalytic rivals, supporting the idea that life evolved from an ‘RNA world’

Perovskite posits answer to xenon riddle

11 October 2012 Research

The surprising noble gas ratio in the Earth's atmosphere could be explain by the solubility of these gases in magma during the planet's formation

Silicon sliver implants melt away

27 September 2012 Research

Transfer printing silicon and magnesium onto silk makes water-soluble 64-pixel camera and anti-bacterial heater, heralding ‘transient’ medical devices

UK university lab shut after student poisoning

18 September 2012 News and Analysis

Police and safety body investigate as University of Southampton PhD student exposed to thallium and arsenic falls ill

Sweaty buildings cool themselves

10 September 2012 Research

Keeping buildings cool with hydrogels, while cutting carbon emissions is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration

Inert nanoshells succumb to iron will

24 August 2012 Research

Doping hollow silica nanoshells with iron could make them biodegradable and therefore safer for medical applications like real-time tumour imaging

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