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Digitally unrolling historical scrolls

22 May 2013  Research

X-ray tomography can unroll and read parchment scrolls that have become stuck together.


Chad Mirkin named Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year

24 May 2013 News and Analysis

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This year’s prize has been awarded to US nanotechnologist Chad Mirkin for his work on spherical nucleic acids

Releasing reactive oxygen

24 May 2013 Research

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Light prompts nanoparticles to discharge singlet oxygen payloads

Microwaves show their hand

24 May 2013 Research

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New technique can tell left from right even at low concentrations

$500m fine over generics fraud for Ranbaxy  

Company has pleaded guilty to fabricating data and producing substandard drugs

Filming phonons  

Femtosecond film captures vibrations in gold nanocrystal

Egyptian research budget ‘unspent’  

Egypt's ministry of scientific research faces funding cuts, after failing to spend most of...

The power of multivalency against cholera  

Inhibitor combines a pentavalent scaffold with cell membrane sugar to trick and trap the c...

Understanding sulfa drugs' side effects  

Over 70 years since their first use, scientists discover how sulfanonamide drugs cause the...

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