All articles by Jamie Durrani – Page 7
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NewsUK and Switzerland team up as Horizon Europe participation remains uncertain
New funds available for collaborative projects, but future involvement in EU projects remains in doubt
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NewsDeparting Darpa deputy director to head up UK’s new science funding body
Peter Highnam appointed as the first chief executive of ‘high-risk, high-reward’ Aria
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NewsNobel prize medal of DFT inventor Walter Kohn is up for auction
$457,531Nobel medal and textbooks owned by scientist who fled Nazis as a child go under the hammer
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ResearchDilanthanide complexes smash record for strongest single-molecule magnet
Complexes featuring first ever lanthanide–lanthanide bond could offer way to make powerful new permanent magnets
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ResearchEvolved enzymes carry out new-to-nature radical chemistry
Directed evolution produces enzymes that can ‘tame’ radical intermediates for asymmetric catalytic reactions
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NewsScientists recognised in 2022 New Year’s Honours list
Contributions to science and the UK’s pandemic response rewarded in annual list
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NewsAirbus to build Ariel telescope to examine exoplanets' chemical composition
European Space Agency’s mission to study chemical composition of 1000 exoplanets will launch in 2029
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ResearchRare red californium sandwich pushes frontier of isolable molecules
Researchers rehearsed metallocene’s synthesis with other elements before using just two milligrams of the precious radioactive actinide
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NewsAdditional €100 million agreed for Horizon Europe in 2022
More money for research agreed in EU budget negotiations
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ResearchDearomatisation, but without nasty reagents
New Birch reduction protocol creates solvated electrons without the dangerous combination of liquid ammonia and alkali metal
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ResearchCalls for clarity from EU universities over UK’s association to Horizon Europe
Bodies representing over 1000 universities want guarantee of UK involvement in European research programme
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ResearchBurning metal to make clean energy
An unlikely sounding technology that is greener than you might think
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NewsKarolinska Institute pursues name changes to lose racist links
Home of medicine Nobel prize to rename building and two streets named after racist scientists
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FeatureHow organocatalysis won the Nobel prize
Jamie Durrani tells the story of how two young upstarts, Ben List and David MacMillan, created a whole new field of catalysis
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NewsAsymmetric organocatalysis scoops 2021 chemistry Nobel prize
Benjamin List and David MacMillan recognised for research that makes chemistry greener
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NewsHow prizes contribute to the ‘extraordinary growth’ of a scientific field
Prize-winning topics produce more papers and retain more scientists than non-prizewinning areas
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NewsNobel prize in physics goes to research on complex physical systems
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi improved our understanding of everything from atoms to Earth’s climate
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ResearchMarie Antoinette’s secret messages to Swedish count revealed by chemical analysis
Spectroscopy deciphers censored passages in 200-year-old letters between last French queen and the man rumoured to be her lover
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NewsScience behind sense of touch and temperature wins medicine Nobel prize
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian honoured for discovery of ion channels activated by temperature and mechanical force
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NewsUK to ease restrictions on gene editing in crops and livestock
Redefinition of genetically-modified organisms could see Crispr-edited foods brought to market