What is tear gas? How, and why, was it developed? How does it affect people in the short and long term? Who makes it?
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With summer starting to look rather close on the horizon, many students will be starting placements in research labs. Victoria Atkinson has five tips to help make the most of academic or industrial placements!
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A spokesperson for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that accusations of chemical weapon use were not backed up by enough evidence to reach a conclusion.
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Carbon’s allotrope explosion demonstrates how the element is both versatile and fickle. Ashok Keerthi features in this piece Chemistry World #graphene #HomeOfGraphene #NGI

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Students who work in labs during the summer get an exciting window into research life and can serve as nucleation points for new ideas and catalysts for research progress, as Victoria Atkinson writes.
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Scientists from Ruhr-Universität Bochum have proposed a new model to rationalise the effect of local hydrophobicity and local electric fields affecting the complex behaviour at electrified gold/water interfaces.
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Royal Society of Chemistry just featured our latest research on the bacterial flagellar motor in Chemistry World. Read the article here: chemistryworld.com/news/ultracold… And the paper here: nature.com/articles/s4156… #Science #STEM Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences Vanderbilt Pharmacology Chemistry World #AlphaFold …

Zhang Yongzhen and his team were the first to release the genome of the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 in January 2020. Since then, he has faced obstruction conducting his research in China since publishing the sequence without state approval.
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A recent trip to MCA Australia helped remind A/Prof Alice Motion 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ of the rich potential for art-based entry points into science, and indeed science-based entry points into art.
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Using cryo-electron microscopy two different groups have revealed new insights into how flagellum power bacteria to get where they're going. Julia Robinson reports: chemistryworld.com/news/ultracold…

'If you treat data just like oil, you’re going to miss the opportunity to really drive innovation.'
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Here's my latest story for @chemistryworld, on University of Hawaii at Manoa chemists making methanetriol, an 'impossible molecule' that's extremely unstable under ambient conditions (but could exist in the upper atmosphere and outer space) 🪐🚀 More: chemistryworld.com/news/interstel… J. Am. Chem. Soc. ACS Publications

Just like aromaticity, antiaromaticity is one of those fuzzy chemical concepts that’s associated with nuance and controversy.
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Most uses of dichloromethane or methylene chloride have been banned by the US Environmental Protection Agency due to concerns about cancer and other serious health issues.
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Coalition of citizen groups argues that ending export of pesticides banned for use in the EU would cost few jobs and save lives, protect the environment in low- and middle-income countries chemistryworld.com/news/call-for-…

Biochemist Dr. Stephen Withers of @UBCchem says it will still take time to generate an approved universal blood product. 'We all want to say it’ll be there in five years, but in reality ... safety studies take a long time.'

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Igor Alabugin, FSU Chemistry & Biochemistry Cottrell Family Professor at Florida State University, sheds light on the surprising role played by antiaromatic molecules and the doors they may open for future research, in this article for Chemistry World. ⤵️🔬 bit.ly/3WvbW0O

Methanetriol, an extremely unstable molecule with three hydroxyl groups, has been synthesised and characterised in the lab for the first time, thanks to interstellar ices, reports Fer 🚀.
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