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Since Trump’s reinauguration, dozens of scientific advisory panels across US science agencies have been overhauled and terminated.
Rebecca Trager reports:
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To accelerate the role of flow battery technology in renewable energy storage and make the field more accessible to new researchers, more robust, consistent, and accessible testing practices are needed.
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Scientists seeking to understand the biological mechanisms behind coral stress have shown how rising temperatures affect tiny structures called cilia that coat the surface of cells found in the outer layer of coral tissue.
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Over 28,000 people took to the streets in Vienna, Austria on 27 May in response to the government’s proposed budget cuts to science departments.
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The researchers describe this new work as the first example of mechanochemistry-directed ligand design for an enantioselective reaction.
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Chemistry history in this week’s podcast episode explores how carbon dioxide was discovered by Scottish chemist Joseph Black.
For this, the story so far on click chemistry & new insights into the actinides, listen here:
#chemistry #podcast #discovery
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The reaction, which requires only an iron-based catalyst, could potentially replace existing processes requiring extreme conditions or toxic reagents.
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‘It was unexpected, those meetings are very overwhelming & escalated to a disciplinary so quickly.
In my view, despite the evidence I provided to support my case, it felt the decision was already made,’ a mid-career scientist told Fawzi Abou-Chahine.
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Predrag Sikirić has been working on BPC-157 since the 1990s & says excitement over the peptide’s possible therapeutic effects wasn’t unexpected.
Yet, media interest hasn’t translated into funding to help put BPC-157 through the required clinical trials:
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‘I’d argue that most academic groups doing total synthesis care more about style, creativity and novelty than some abstract measure of efficiency,’ writes Chris Nawrat.
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The ruthenium-agent can penetrate deep into bacteria and produce reactive oxygen species when exposed to ultrasound that are deadly to the bacteria.
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Undergraduate and PhD students at Somerville College, Oxford meet regularly each week to help each other with work and share advice.
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In our latest podcast episode, we explore the click chemistry journey since 2001 & discuss the strange bonding behaviour of some of the largest elements on the periodic table.
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The team discovered the inner & outer components of 5f orbitals could be resolved separately while analysing the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering data – a ‘serendipitous’ result, says the project lead.
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Clivia Lisowski and her team at the Institute for Molecular Medicine & Experimental Immunology have proposed a new mechanism for magnetoreception, based on iron nanoparticles that are found in macrophages in the liver.
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‘We need evidence-based decision-making and serious long-term strategies for the people and institutions that sustain our discipline,’ says the supramolecular chemist & next RSC president-elect.
@RoySocChem
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‘I realised I wasn’t being tested on whether I understood acid-base equilibria. I was being tested on whether I could still think clearly after four continuous hours on my feet,’ writes Nitheeshan Gunanantham.
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Marcia McNutt spent her final State of Science address talking about the problems US science faces with the Trump administration, the issues with academic promotion and the role of AI.
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‘It’s using CO2 in a really different way – as an oxygen carrier to selectively activate a really wide range of organic molecule,’ says inorganic and catalysis chemist Bert Weckhuysen.
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Suggestions trade in certain chemicals through rules similar to the EU’s proposed Critical Medicines Act will be welcome as long as they are not unnecessarily bureaucratic.
@broadwithp
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