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Science’s news editors and writers predict this year’s biggest developments

Huge growth in high-quality research means China leads this year’s Nature ranking

In case you hadn’t noticed, I please myself with what I post on this website and my various social media. I’ve been online since January 1989 and started my first website in December 1995. Sciencebase.com was created in July 1999 and I was on Facebook, Twitter, and the others within the first year of their … Continue reading "Songs, snaps, science, stuff, sciencebase"

Over at Common Organic Chemistry, there are 8 new positions for December 31 and 18 for December 26.

The chemical compounds that make up “new car smell” can be harmful, and they have been found in new cars at levels 10 times higher than recommended limits

Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to understand the sweet mystery of the glycome

Give your chemical intuition a regular workout

Download the puzzles from the December print issue of Chemistry World

A DNA computer consisting of strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900

Science Advisory Board issues stinging rebukes to regulatory moves

On this week’s show: Our first of this year—we cover areas of policy and research to keep your eye on in new year, and delve into how carnivorous plant traps form

Virologist Roberto Burioni’s blunt putdowns win fans but dismay some

Professor Katja Becker, Justus Liebig University Gießen, elected President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Once again, we partied afternoon and early evening on New Year’s Eve 2019 and avoided the midnight shenanigans and so we were sufficiently compos mentis to drive to RSPB Titchwell in North Norfolk for the second year running. Last year, we ticked 54 bird species, although the rangers reported 103. This year we ticked 62, … Continue reading "New Year’s Day 2020 at RSPB Titchwell 62 birdcount"