The Nobel prize medal awarded to British chemist Archer Martin in 1952, alongside Richard Synge for the invention of partition chromatography will be sold by his family via the London-based auctioneer Noonans on 2 February 2023. It is anticipated that the medal will bring in between £100,000 and £150,000. Martin’s road to the development of […]

Covid-19 may no longer be causing the worldwide chaos it had in the past couple of years, but that does not mean it has left the pharma industry’s list of targets. As the virus mutates, so the vaccine makers have adjusted their mega-selling products to maintain efficacy. Both Moderna and Pfizer–BioNTech have developed bivalent vaccines […]

Women publishing in chemistry and chemical engineering journals may receive fewer citation counts when they provide a photograph and biography, a new study has found. It also found a small citation advantage for being affiliated to a high-income country and a high impact author. Many studies have examined what drives citations, one of the most […]

A US judge has dismissed more than 5000 lawsuits against manufacturers of ranitidine after finding there was not enough evidence the drug was responsible for patients’ cancers. Ranitidine, originally branded as Zantac, has been on the market for almost 40 years. It is used to treat indigestion, heartburn and acid reflux, and was the first […]

Researchers in Australia and New Zealand have grown metal crystals that bear an ‘uncanny similarity’ to snowflakes. Like their icy counterparts, the metallic flakes demonstrate striking and diverse symmetrical patterns. Understanding how to control the structures that materials like these take on could help researchers develop new nanomaterials with specially tailored physical properties. Snowflakes are […]

In a previous post we have seen how hydrostatic, an area of physics first developed by Archimedes in the third century CE, underwent a modernisation and development during the Renaissance. Today we are going to look at another area of physics examined by Archimedes, which was also revived, and developed during the Renaissance, statics. To […]

Researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like “cellular glue,” allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. The discovery represents a major step toward building tissues and organs, a long-sought goal of regenerative medicine. Adhesive molecules are found naturally throughout the body, holding its tens […]

A good night’s sleep can work wonders for both mind and body. But what is it that determines how much we need to sleep, and what can cause us to sleep more deeply? In a new study, researchers from the University of Tsukuba have now provided some answers, revealing a signaling pathway within brain cells […]

The short-form video platform TikTok has become one of the top social media platforms in the United States where users go to join online dance trends, get their news and even discuss politics. With a goal of understanding how TikTok encourages content creation, especially political content, a Penn State-led research team has found that the platform’s […]

An algorithm has been created that can rapidly scan hypothetical crystal structures containing any natural element and find those likely to be stable. The program, which was trained by machine learning on a dataset of 140,000 materials, makes predictions almost as accurately as quantum chemistry simulations and far more efficiently. The researchers searched 31 million […]