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Metabolites from urine or blood samples can be used to predict how much a baby will grow six months ahead of time, which could improve interventions for chronic malnutrition

Up to 90% of the popular plastic can be broken into monomers in a matter of hours

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European Innovation Council buys shares in disruptive technology startups

A doctor at Queen’s Hospital offers some self-care advice for people with Covid-19 to help prevent pneumonia developing. The bottom line is that you need to keep your lungs working as well as they can. 1. Sit up, take a deep breath, hold it for five seconds. Do this five times and on the fifth … Continue reading "Important breathing advice for Covid-19 sufferers"

Illness and disability loom after weeks on a ventilator

Arrakis will earn $190 million in its first pharma partnership

Study claimed malaria drug could treat Covid-19

Colorful polymer particles could enable new diagnostics and electronic devices

A program that combines artificial intelligence and geometrical modelling can create an accurate 3D model of your face from a single 20-second video

The rate of new coronavirus cases is dropping in Australia, largely due to strict travel restrictions, but complacency could cause the virus to get out of hand

Plunging into a new field requires careful planning

Cancer Research UK slashes grant money and national centres funds

Analysis of prized gifts gives clues to who made them—and where they came from

Geneticist Constantine Stratakis will not head Canadian research institute

Advance could prevent one of the world’s most common plastics from ending up in the landfill

Phosphorus manages to stabilise an ultra-strained tetrahedrane’s banana bonds

Humanity has behaved like a parasite on planet Earth, sucking out all of the goodness from the forests, the oceans, the land and laying its waste at the feet of Mother Nature. It fills the rivers with poison and the seas with plastic. It has spent almost two centuries creating the kind of cloying atmosphere … Continue reading "Heal the world"

For some, university closures will delay graduation, hiring, and other critical milestones

“Unity is the only option to defeat this virus,” Tedros says

European Research Council says president missed meetings and was distracted by commercial projects

Giant glassware

Giant glassware looks great at an exposition both, like this United Scientific Supplies display at Pittcon 2020. But there really is a market for the cartoonish containers, says Jim Duffey, VP of marketing for the firm, and it’s growing. Duffy tells C&EN that a few years ago, sales in the category started to rise sharply, so he and his coworkers did some digging to find out why. It turns out that equipment like this 10,000 mL vacuum flask and matching Büchner funnel are popular with cannabis chemists... Читать дальше...

Oxidative dehydrogenation of propane does not proceed over an isolated boron site

Thought leaders in life sciences weigh in on lessons learned amid the COVID-19 pandemic