News & analysis – Page 15
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HEFCE identify demand for taught postgraduate courses
Targeted funding will particularly help disadvantaged students
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Chemistry accident at US high school prompts changes
After a chemistry demonstration sparks a fire that injures six, a county in Virginia halts use of open flames in science classes
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Trapped nanoparticles for 'wet' computing
Information stored and retrieved in colloidal particles
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The trouble with transition
Kristy Turner examines the difficulties students have adapting to studying at university
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Understanding DNA repair – 2015 Nobel prize in chemistry
Recipients discovered how cells can patch up damaged DNA
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Chemistry World science communication competition 2015–16
Opportunity to present in the Faraday lecture theatre at the Royal Institution
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Confirmation of buckyballs in the Milky Way
Gas-phase spectra clears up decades old mystery of unidentified absorption bands in our galaxy
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Elusive fermion found at long last
Experimental observation of Weyl fermions in a tantalum arsenide crystal ends search after 86 years
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Sinister caesium: the birth of a meme
Declan Fleming investigates the story behind the classic caesium explosion video
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Alkali metals – the camera lies
Declan Fleming explains how Brainiac's faked explosions helped produce a great resource to stretch his students
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Higher education: a new reality
David Read discusses what the Teaching Excellence Framework might mean for teaching in higher education
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MOF catalyst capable of disabling chemical weapons
Zirconium-based framework breaks down nerve agent mimic within 30 seconds
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Photoacoustic nanoparticles highlight uranium
New approach could detect radioparticles in the body
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Purely inorganic aromatic ion synthesised
Aromatic anion made from nitrogen and phosphorus synthesised
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Improving rare earth separation
Photochemistry selectively removes europium from red lamp phosphor
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Inspiration and Industry award for Hilary
RSC has recognised Hilary Jeffreys for her outstanding contribution to the promotion of the chemical sciences
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25% of public put off chemistry by school
A new survey on public attitudes to chemistry shows the public’s perception is closely tied with their school experience