Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has shone a stark spotlight on the inter-related, and particularly interdependent, nature of the modern globalised world. And the impact of this heinous act will have repercussions long after any resolution of the situation.
A new genetic test can accurately identify a range of hard-to-diagnose diseases caused by unusually long repetitive DNA sequences. Its developers claim it could quickly diagnose any of 50 potentially life-threatening diseases caused by these so-called ‘repeat expansion disorders’.
While oil and gas have grabbed the headlines in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the surging price of other commodities, notably metals, has seen less publicity.
Contradictory EU policies encouraged, then undermined, oilseed rape farming in Europe, say researchers at the UK’s Rothamsted Research, in a report presented at a recent British Crop Protection Council meeting (GCB Bioenergy, 2022, 14, 258).
A simple hydrocarbon molecule has been shown to switch between two different conformations on applying an electric current. The molecule goes from insulating to conductive, akin to how a transistor made from silicon toggles between on and off (zero and one). A discovery that could potentially lead to novel molecular transistors.
New research to better understand cell membrane proteins called aquaporins (AQPs) could have a big impact in head injury and stroke by reducing water swelling in the brain, researchers have reported.
The latest business digest for C&I Issue 3 2022 with all the latest mergers and acquisitions in the chemical industry.
Researchers from the EUROfusion consortium reported record energy generation from the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Culham, Oxfordshire, in February. The 59MJ of heat energy from fusion over a 5s period was nearly three times the previous record, demonstrated in 1997.
The day after BP abandoned its stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft, rival oil giant Shell announced plans to exit all its Russian operations, Reuters reported at the beginning of March 2022.
Researchers in Japan have described how to make ammonia (NH3) without the need for highly active metal catalysts or high pressures (J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126, 2403).