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A facility housing large tanks of methyl methacrylate, the monomer form of polymethyl methacrylate was overheating this May. @chemjobber.bsky.social explores the lessons learned & how risky runaway polymerisation can be prevented in the future: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/earl...
Early lessons from the Garden Grove chemical incidentA runaway polymerisation raises questions about safety measures and their backupswww.chemistryworld.com‘We routinely analyse samples using machine learning techniques that were introduced in the 1980s, and that is all we need,’ says Rasmus Bro, who researches machine learning in analytical chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. Read on 👇 #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...
How AI is transforming the world of analytical chemistryAnalytical chemists have been using machine learning long before ChatGPT made headlines. Now, as generative AI enters the laboratory, the discipline faces both opportunities and riskswww.chemistryworld.comWhat lessons can we learn from the dioxin disaster in Seveso, Italy five decades later? The Chemical Breakdown team discuss what happened and the measures taken. Listen to the full episode here or wherever you get your podcasts: @jtdurrani.bsky.social #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/50-...
‘Science thrives when talent, ideas and innovation cross borders,’ said Ekaterina Zaharieva, the European commissioner for startups, research and innovation. @horizoneu.bsky.social @rsc.org #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/japan-f...
Japan finalises joining the EU’s flagship research programme Horizon EuropeTwenty-three countries outside the EU have now affiliated to the research funding scheme with Japan being the most populouswww.chemistryworld.comA quarter of respondents to a survey by the German Chemical Society’s Young Chemists Network experienced or witnessed discrimination in the working environment – around two-thirds based on gender, while around a fifth related to nationality or ethnicity. www.chemistryworld.com/news/61-of-g...
61% of Germany’s chemistry PhD students consider quitting their degreesUnhealthy supervisor-student relationships driving poor mental health outcomes among chemistry researcherswww.chemistryworld.comWith the lifting of patent protection for GLP-1s active ingredient, there has been a rush to introduce cheaper generic versions of Ozempic for diabetes and Wegovy for weight management. Anthony King looks at the progress & challenges since. www.chemistryworld.com/news/indias-...
India’s generic GLP-1 drugs are (mostly) boomingManufacturing problems for some manufacturers have led to production pauses and recalled batches of diabetes and weight loss drugswww.chemistryworld.comThe unprecedented coverage of an academic simply moving to another university appears to signal a growing anxiety over the Trump administration’s handling of science & research funding. @rebeccatrager.bsky.social #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/is-the-...
Is the US witnessing the start of a brain drain of chemists to China?Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi is the latest prominent chemist to leave for China and his high-profile departure may signal growing uneasewww.chemistryworld.comA challenge for chemists looking to understand safe lab working is that every pregnancy is different. Appropriate precautions can vary significantly depending on the individual & their work. Join us for a free one-hour webinar looking at what this means: www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/wor...
Working safely through pregnancy: a conversation for chemists and lab leadersHow safe is the lab when you're pregnant? Join our conversation on 9 Septemberwww.chemistryworld.comAnthony Fauci chose not to testify at a Senate hearing, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination, stating that the chair, Rand Paul, had an ‘unhinged obsession’ with him. @rebeccatrager.bsky.social #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/top-us-...
Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci could be held in contempt of CongressCentral figure in country's fight against Covid-19 refuses to answer Senate panel's question, accusing chairman of 'unhinged obsession'www.chemistryworld.comUS pharma giant Johnson & Johnson has offered to pay $5.5 billion resolve roughly 76,000 US lawsuits that claim the company’s baby powder and other talc-based products caused ovarian cancer, bringing more than a decade of litigation to a close. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/jandj-p...
J&J proposes $5.5 billion settlement deal for talc cancer lawsuitsDeal would resolve 76,000 cases of women claiming talc caused ovarian cancerwww.chemistryworld.comBoth US and EU authorities have championed chemical recycling as a way to deal with hard-to-recycle materials like soft plastic films & mixed-material packaging. But these processes are still in their infancy in terms of scaling. @broadwithp.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/wher...
Where does chemical recycling of plastics go from here?US and EU plant closures highlight economic difficulties of scaling technology alongside associated policy and infrastructurewww.chemistryworld.com‘Fascinated by chemistry & rather good at it, I headed to university fully expecting to love it. I ran face first into the brick wall of organic chemistry. The sum total of my talent & effort resulted in, at best, mediocrity,’ writes Max Meissner. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/careers/the-...
The art of the pivot, or how to fail yourself to happinessAs Mike Tyson once said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the facewww.chemistryworld.comHow can we take advantage of membrane materials to separate crude oil streams based on pore size at scale? The Chemical Breakdown team unpack the latest materials breakthrough and more. Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts: #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/50-...
Green humanoids or tentacled beasts may come to mind with the word extremophiles but the reality can be much smaller. Join us tomorrow to hear about microorganisms providing clues for how life started on Earth & what it could like on other planets. @rsc.org www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/one...
One small step for microorganisms: what extremophiles on Earth can teach us about life on other planetsLearn how some of the tiniest organisms thrive in the harshest environments - join us on 30 Julywww.chemistryworld.comChris McDonald has now been named as the minister of state for science. His portfolio will serve both the Department of Business, Innovation, Science and Trade and the Department for Health and Social Care. @jtdurrani.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemica...
Chemical engineer Chris McDonald appointed as UK’s science ministerFormer head of Materials Processing Institute given responsibility for science in hybrid rolewww.chemistryworld.comThe new facility will be fitted with more modern equipment that the university’s Institute of Chemistry says is needed for its lecturers to ensure high teaching standards for students. www.chemistryworld.com/news/polands...
Poland’s £62 million chemistry centre sparks debate over university financesConstruction started on the facility last year but some university staff are worried by falling chemistry student numbers and budget shortfallswww.chemistryworld.comThe initiative’s objective is to advance autonomous labs in which scientists direct the research goals and smart robotics carry out the procedures, and to facilitate remote control of automated instrumentation. @rebeccatrager.bsky.social #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-nati...
US National Science Foundation putting $380 million into building ‘self-driving’ labsNorth Carolina State is one of the institutes receiving a $20 million grant aims to advance an autonomous chemistry labwww.chemistryworld.comResearchers found that adding the widely used industrial chemical to polyethylene oxide-based electrolytes promotes the growth of lithium as spherical particles rather than needle-like dendrites. @rsc.org www.chemistryworld.com/news/ferric-...
Ferric chloride steers lithium away from dendrites to improve safety of lithium-metal batteriesCommon chemical additive challenges the assumption that stiffer electrolytes are needed to suppress dendriteswww.chemistryworld.comInvestigating further with the help of Kendall Houk, the team identified that by tweaking the conditions, they could generate different tri-/tetra-substituted structures, incorporating one or two distinct aldehyde units & an alkene into the final product. www.chemistryworld.com/news/unexpec...
Unexpected cyclisation provides easy access to elusive tetra-substituted THFsA mix-and-match approach to substituted heterocycleswww.chemistryworld.comDecades after the dioxin disaster struck Seveso in Italy, The Chemical Breakdown team takes a look back at its health impacts & beyond. Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts: #ChemSky @jtdurrani.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/50-...