Further restrictions could be put on academics that are already struggling with being limited to five hours research a week ...

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Two new catalytic strategies offer ways to boost the Fischer–Tropsch process by preventing competing side reactions. The ...

An industry–academia collaboration has led to the development of a tool that combines infrared and proton NMR spectroscopy ...

Swiss pharma giant Novartis has been on a deal spree ahead of several major patent expiries. In late October it agreed a $12 ...

‘The UK has experienced sluggish productivity growth and near-flat real wages since the global financial crisis,’ says Robert ...

University of Nebraska's drug design centre director is communicating his team's scientific breakthroughs with tattoos and ...

A survey of chemists’ attitudes to correcting errors in scientific publications shows most prefer to discuss them informally ...

Technology could be used to detect subtle shifts in bodily markers in breath that herald infections and cancers ...

Survey of 3000 researchers across the world shows 40% of those in the US are contemplating relocating in the next two years, ...

The two beamlines being considered for closure are the far-infrared/terahertz spectroscopy and infrared microscopy beamlines, ...