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• Racism still rife against black and minority ethnic teachers in England

  28-10-2016 16:24
  
  A University of Huddersfield professor has developed a theory that black and minority ethnic (BME) teachers and academics in England depend on "white sanction" in order to fulfil their potential.
  
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• Microscopy structures reveal mechanism behind bitter taste

  15-04-2024 15:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Cryo-EM images provide a detailed picture of bitter taste receptors
  
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• Superconductivity: the search and the scandal

  15-04-2024 11:25 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Recent high profile controversies haven’t deterred scientists from searching for one of research’s ultimate prizes: room temperature superconductors. Kit Chapman reports on the claims
  
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• Rail company will pay $600 million to settle East Palestine lawsuits

  12-04-2024 15:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Norfolk Southern reaches agreement to resolve litigation related to last year’s train derailment that spilled hazardous chemical cargo
  
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• When the blood keeps on flowing

  12-04-2024 10:35 via chemistryworld.com
  
  While warfarins can be lifesaving, superwarfarins are deadly – and not just to rodents
  
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• Algorithm designs proteins from scratch that can bind drugs and small molecules

  12-04-2024 10:32 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Strategy could stop an overdose or produce an antidote to a poison
  
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• US finally gets nationwide regulation of PFAS in drinking water

  11-04-2024 16:55 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Long-awaited rule is significantly stricter and covers six PFAS, with a five-year phase in for water utilities
  
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• ‘Low-VOC’ paints may still release harmful volatiles

  11-04-2024 15:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  New analysis finds volatile compounds and potential allergens in several popular water-based paints
  
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• Could mechanochemistry have saved Abbott Laboratories $250 million?

  11-04-2024 15:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Ball milling solves problem of disappearing ritonavir polymorph
  
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• The pivotal role of chemistry in India’s sustainable development

  11-04-2024 11:47 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Join us on 5 June to learn how chemistry is playing an important role in shaping the future of sustainable development in India
  
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• Holes in the ‘holey graphyne’ story

  11-04-2024 10:39 via chemistryworld.com
  
  The challenges – and importance – of questioning published results
  
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• £124 million national electron microscope facility to be constructed in Cheshire

  11-04-2024 10:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  State-of-the-art facility will support researchers aiming to translate chemical understanding into new materials and products
  
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• EPA’s clean air rule cuts chemical plant pollution

  10-04-2024 15:40 via chemistryworld.com
  
  New regulation affects about 200 facilities in the US, reducing emissions of ethylene oxide, chloroprene and three other chemicals
  
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• Troubleshooting your career

  10-04-2024 15:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Viewing your job through an experimental lens
  
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• Chemical analysis reveals origins of early English silver coins

  10-04-2024 15:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Byzantine silver plates were melted down to make many of the first Anglo-Saxon coins
  
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• Certain household chemicals could pose a threat to brain health, research suggests

  10-04-2024 15:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Cell and animal tests suggest two classes of common chemicals might play a role in neurological disease
  
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• How to troubleshoot experiments

  10-04-2024 10:43 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Six tips for solving problems in the lab
  
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• Simulations track how MOFs adsorb water, one molecule at a time

  10-04-2024 10:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  ‘You can almost drink our water model because it’s so realistic’
  
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• Self-dyeing vegan leather made by genetically engineered bacteria

  10-04-2024 10:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Material can be shaped into shoes and wallets, offering a sustainable alternative to traditional leather
  
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• First entirely roll-to-roll system points way to cheap printed perovskite solar cells

  09-04-2024 15:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  New ink formulations facilitate printing of perovskite solar cells, catalysing cost-effective commercial applications
  
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• Using analytical chemistry to illuminate the unlisted ingredients in tattoo inks

  09-04-2024 13:16 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Discovery that more than 80% of the tattoo inks sampled had unlisted ingredients prompts New York-based lab to launch a website providing chemical information to tattoo artists and their clients
  
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• Chemists and linguists unite to encode Confucian proverb using sequence-defined polymers

  09-04-2024 12:56 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Interdisciplinary collaboration tests how two encoding schemas preserve the visual details of Chinese characters
  
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• Chemistry wordoku #038

  09-04-2024 12:48 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Find the alkaloid by solving this sudoku-style puzzle
  
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• Cryptic chemistry crossword #032

  09-04-2024 12:24 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Can’t puzzle out the mysteries of the universe? Try the answers to cryptic crossword #032 instead!
  
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• Quick chemistry crossword #032

  09-04-2024 12:05 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Query your chemistry knowledge with this quick crossword puzzle today!
  
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• A key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk

  09-04-2024 10:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Japanese scientific society suspends journal publication saying it has ‘completed its role’
  
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• $6.6 million settlement follows 2019 fire at Texas petrochemical facility

  08-04-2024 16:02 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Site owner to pay compensation for environmental damage caused by release of hazardous chemicals during days-long fire
  
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• Heated crystals jump to enantiomeric separation

  08-04-2024 15:40 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Chiral asparagine monohydrate crystals can segregate by handedness – if you arrange them carefully first
  
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• Telling left from right: chirality detection faces up to its weaknesses

  08-04-2024 10:05 via chemistryworld.com
  
  New solutions are being found to an enduring problem in chemistry
  
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• Letters: April 2024

  05-04-2024 15:30 via chemistryworld.com
  
  Readers discuss the handedness of DNA, celebrate the Explosives Act and reminisce about childhood experiments
  
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