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The Science Behind a Landmark Discovery With Konstantinos Thalassinos
3+ hour, 55+ min ago (130+ words) Technology Networks The Science Behind a Landmark Discovery With Konstantinos Thalassinos At ASMS 2026, the Technology Networks team spoke with Dr. Konstantinos Thalassinos, Professor of Mass Spectrometry at University College London, about how advanced mass spectrometry is transforming the study of…...
Calculating chemistry's contribution to the UK economy
15+ hour, 17+ min ago (302+ words) Grants, bursaries and prizes for student and early career members and funding for schools The Royal Society of Chemistry finds that chemistry added "60. 5bln to the UK economy in 2023, supporting 327, 500 jobs. Furthermore, there was an 18% increase in the contribution of chemistry…...
Inter SECt 2026: AI Network Security Conference
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (168+ words) Palo Alto Networks The future of Frontier AI Americas: Aug 19 | 10: 00 AM PDT Europe, Middle-East & Africa: Aug 20 | 10: 00 AM CEST Asia-Pacific: Aug 20 | 11: 30 AM SGT Reduce exposure before attacks begin Frontier AI has collapsed the exposure window to mere minutes. Overnight, the definition…...
The Green Lab: Rethinking Research from the Bench Up
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (573+ words) geneonline. com The Green Lab: Rethinking Research from the Bench Up A laboratory is not an obvious symbol of environmental excess. The image it conjures " meticulous, precise, controlled " suggests restraint rather than waste. The reality is different. Labs consume ten…...
Don't forget about electricity when greening your chemistry lab
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (331+ words) This Greening Chemistry column highlights an easy-to-overlook but important factor that affects both a laboratory's energy use and expenses by Tom Welton, special to C&EN Covering the latest in sustainability and environmental issues in chemistry. Greening Chemistry is a…...
Chemistry delivers "60. 5 billion to the UK economy and makes local economies more resilient, says RSC report
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (318+ words) The chemical sciences contributed "60. 5 billion to the UK economy in 2023, a new report from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has found. The report reveals how chemistry supports innovation and growth across a range of sectors and industries, and calls…...
New biobased polymers exhibiting excellent tensile properties beyond polyolefins
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (222+ words) Tokyo, Japan " The research group of Professor Kotohiro Nomura, Tokyo Metropolitan University, in cooperation with the research groups of Senior Researcher Hiroshi Hirano and Director Seiji Higashi, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, and Associate Professor Hiroki Takeshita,…...
Scientists Turn Pine Resin-Derived Rosin Into High-Quality Bulk Graphite
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (306+ words) A new molecular strategy transforms renewable rosin into graphitizable pitch, offering a promising route toward fossil-free bulk graphite for advanced carbon materials and energy technologies. Paper: Graphitizable pitch from pine resin enables bulk graphite from terpenes. Image credit: AI-generated image…...
The future of chemistry is taking shape in the lab: ex're wins the From Lab to Market Challenge 2026
1+ week, 2+ day ago (979+ words) The three winning teams and the organizers of this year's From Lab to Market Challenge, along with the lucky winner, Yelda Nur Demird'en (front, 4th from the left). The winners were selected by a panel of experts and the on-site participants…...
Ph D student Austin Sympson: Working toward restoring vision for a "brighter future" through chemical engineering
1+ week, 3+ day ago (362+ words) Iowa State University Ph D student Austin Sympson: Working toward restoring vision for a "brighter future" through chemical engineering Austin Sympson (pictured right) is working toward a Ph D in chemical engineering. He serves as a graduate research assistant in…...