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Microbubbles active C–H bonds, converting methane into ethane and formic acid
Microbubbles can activate C–H bonds in methane under mild conditions to produce ethane and formic acid. That’s according to ...
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Carbon capture making slow progress in UK and Europe
The UK government has confirmed almost £22 billion funding to kickstart the country’s first carbon capture, transport and ...
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Meteorite 200 times larger than one that killed dinosaurs reset early life
This meteorite was far larger than the infamous Cretaceous era ending one. ‘We’re looking at a bolide that was 500 to 200 ...
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A solid starting point
The hydrogen-bonded network in liquid water resists compression; density increases instead arise from molecules moving into ...
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Perseverance rover’s discovery of organics on Mars could be illusory
Hopes that compounds were sign of prebiotic chemistry or even ancient life may be result of instrument limitations ...
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Directing group facilitates catalytic breakdown of high-performance polymer
Alternatively, ‘we typically insert labile groups into polymer backbones so we can break them down into monomers, but this ...
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Argentina’s researchers face continued catastrophe under Javier Milei
The president of Argentina, who has been in office less than a year, has continued cuts to higher education and science ...
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Online archive of Humphry Davy’s notebooks opens to the public
A new online archive allows members of the public to browse Humphry Davy ’s lab notebooks. As well as recording Davy’s ...
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In situ with Yvonne Perrie
The drug delivery expert and multidisciplinary researcher on the importance of learning from failure and how a summer in a ...