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Google is in talks with the UK government to see how it can share aggregated and anonymised location data from its apps to show whether coronavirus social distancing measures are working

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The lovely people at Seedball sent me a small sack of their products, a great mix of wildflower seeds embedded in clay pellets with natural fertilisers, minerals and chilli (to keep the invertebrates off until germination takes place). I’ve mentioned them before. I did some “wilding last year. This year, I’d planned to scale up, … Continue reading "Wilding the garden with Seedball"

Boston biotech firm is making its discovery and production service available to firms working on diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines

Brian Clegg on the popular over-the-counter painkiller, developed by a high-street pharmacy chain

A number of difference forces are involved in producing sound when a bubble pops, and the exact noise depends on the chemical properties of the soap film

It’s not that fallen bees smell dead—they just don’t smell alive anymore

Scientists lead the way in repairing the cathedral, while discovering historical insights along the way

The first-ever interstellar comet is showing signs of brightening, suggesting it may have been heated up as it passed near to the sun

Researchers at the University of Oxford claim their new coronavirus diagnostic technology is fast and highly accurate

A favorite version of an old song. Have a good weekend, everyone. 

Use this book to plot visits across Europe to the homesteads, graveyards, laboratories, apartments, abbeys and castles of your chemistry heroes

Via FiercePharma, not every day that you decide to hop on a long-distance flight and announce that you'd hidden your disease symptoms to get back to your home country:
A Biogen management meeting held in Boston in late February has spawned 108 confirmed or presumptive positive cases of the novel coronavirus—and has now led to a criminal investigation. Monday, Beijing police said they had filed an investigation of a woman surnamed Li for hiding her health status when entering China, a potentially criminal offense. Читать дальше...

Evolving university policies sow confusion

Long tradition of the trend reports published in Nachrichten aus der Chemie

Double detection

Filled with colorful solutions, these test tubes, reflected in a granite counter top, contain fractions of an optical sensor obtained via high-performance liquid chromatography. Sayani Das developed the sensor to detect mercury ions in water. The sensor changes color in the presence of mercury, allowing a user to detect low parts-per-billion concentrations by sight. Das’s PhD research at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai focuses on developing sensors such... Читать дальше...