Category: 6. Chemistry

Funding for research and innovation will rise from £20.4 billion in 2025–2026 to £22.6 billion per year by the end of 2029–2030, in support of the forthcoming industrial strategy, the UK government has announced in its spending review.

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Chemists who are the first in their immediate family to attend university face ongoing barriers not just at the point of entry, but throughout their careers, a new study shows. These include feelings of isolation, heightened financial pressures,…

Social class bias exists in every major economy. However, compared to other developed nations the UK is third bottom for social mobility, and at its worst in over 50 years. This has been exacerbated by learning losses and declining…

Replacing some chemical pesticides with potentially safer, more environmentally benign alternatives is a significant challenge in agricultural biotechnology. Apolo Biotech, a startup in Argentina, is developing an RNA-based approach to enhancing…

A photocatalytic flow process activates simple gaseous alkanes for an atom economic late-stage alkylation of pharmaceutical heterocycles. The inherently scalable process employs cheap and abundant feedstocks to cleanly generate six distinct…

Skin lotions and perfumes can disrupt the chemistry of the air surrounding us, although more investigation is needed to understand what, if anything, this means for human health.

Back in 2022, a team of researchers led by Jonathan Williams,…

A systematic survey of archived protein structures has revealed dozens of examples of a previously overlooked covalent bonding motif. Mapping these nitrogen–oxygen–sulfur (NOS) linkages could open the door to new therapies and better…

From vivid bright and dark blues to greys and dull greens, the many colours of ancient Egyptian Blue pigment have now been recreated by a team of US scientists and archaeologists. The work could help researchers identify and perhaps repair…

By affecting cows’ diets, climate change can affect cheese’s nutritional value and sensory traits such as taste, color and texture. This is true at least for Cantal — a firm, unpasteurized cheese from the Auvergne region in…

Insects could provide an alternative way of synthesising oxygen-doped molecular nanocarbons that are notoriously difficult to prepare in the lab. Dubbed ‘in-insect synthesis’, the researchers, based in Japan, said the technique could…