News & analysis – Page 7
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Chemical analysis reveals origin of Pompeian mosaic tiles
Portable spectrometers shed light on the materials used in ancient Roman mosaics
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Analysis
How preterm birth can affect learning
Children born prematurely may need different types of support when developing key skills in maths and science
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Chop! Chop! Creating useful chemicals from lignin
Breaking the hardy carbon-carbon bond in wood puts new fuels on the horizon
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Cooking up a storm with fertiliser
Scientists find a novel way to recycle waste oil – using it as fertiliser
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Analysis
Giving disadvantaged students a helping hand
How can teachers enable socio-economically disadvantaged children?
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Build students' confidence in their practical skills
The positive impact of the new A-level
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Catalyst makes liquid fuels from renewable resources
A step closer to producing fuels for trucks and airplanes from biomass
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Analysis
Uptake of science apprenticeships grows
Getting started wih lab tech and lab scientist apprenticeships
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Chemists weave granny and triple trefoil knots
Giant molecules with a carbon backbone by synthetic chemistry
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A new angle on collision theory
Scientists shoot the world’s smallest projectiles – individual molecules – and use them to study how reactions happen
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Analysis
Finding the fake booze
Ever wondered what Raman spectrometry is? Here’s how it can find out what’s in a bottle without opening it.