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People who endorse authoritarian views and those who favour social hierarchies are less willing to act on climate change than others

Infants across the world begin pointing with their index finger between 9 and 14 months of age – perhaps because of an urge to touch objects beyond their reach

The 'Big Five' model of personality is widely used, but it turns out it doesn't work for people in low- and middle-income countries, or even just older people in the West

Hundreds of fish can change sex, but only now have we discovered exactly how at least one makes this change

Usually, I carry a “blimey, that’s a big one” lens the size of which passersby seem to have no reservations in commenting on. It does have a focal length of 600mm, but it’s tiny compared to some of the fast professional sports and wildlife prime lenses of similar focal length out there. Anyway, today I … Continue reading "Macro Safari"

The first modern humans were not supposed to have reached Europe until 45,000 years ago, but a skull from a Greek cave turns out to be 210,000 years old

Paleontologists are closely watching lawsuit over ownership of "dueling dinosaurs"

Die grundsätzliche Vorgehensweise zur erfolgreichen Simulation einer mehrphasigen Strömung wird erläutert und anhand einfacher Beispiele durch ein Softwarepraktikum am Computer vertieft

Droplet reduction may shed light on puzzles of the prebiotic era and offer a new way to do green chemistry

Mechanical helpers have been creeping into our labs for decades

Lab vials coated with glucose oxidase convert dissolved oxygen into a catalyst for RAFT polymerisation

Virus refuses to budge in Afganistan and Pakistan, while vaccine-derived strains trigger fresh outbreaks in Africa

Technology could reshape the way scientists diagnose sleep disorders

Startling conclusion from fossil faces skepticism

Award promotes the work of women chemists and chemical engineers worldwide

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Barnacle-like crystals formed overnight when Davide Ceradini left out a flask containing a solution of two parts ethyl acetate to one part petroleum ether left over from a reaction. Ceradini is an organic chemist at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis. His research focuses on scaling up the synthesis of serine protease inhibitors, which prevent certain enzymes from cleaving peptide bonds, for topical treatment studies in mice. Ceradini believes the round shapes formed... Читать дальше...

Precise proton mapping near micellar membranes