Новости за 01.02.2023

Ongoing pain, such as chronic back or neck pain, is difficult to treat, so some doctors prescribe antidepressants. Now, a review of evidence says these drugs mostly don't work as a treatment

The first physical proof that Vikings brought horses and dogs to England has been unearthed

Analysis of cut marks on elephant bones suggests every scrap of meat and fat was removed from the big beasts

A study of nearly 2 million tweets over one year suggests that people in San Francisco feel disgusted when at hardware stores and Londoners are most joyful at hostels or motels

A study of more than 1.5 million tweets over one year suggests that people in San Francisco feel disgusted when at hardware stores and Londoners are most joyful at motels

Companies plan to build world’s largest facility for catalyst coated membranes

Statistical mechanics helps relate the quantum world to objects that seem solid and not governed by the whims of observation, but there are still questions to be answered, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Last week saw the launch of Deep Fake Neighbour Wars, the first ever deepfake comedy. We need to start talking about the legal and ethical implications of this technology, says New Scientist's television columnist Bethan Ackerley

Analytical chemistry reveals recipes from an ancient Egyptian embalming workshop

Chemists reveal the compounds and sources of embalming treatments

Bots, such as the now well-known ChatGPT, are really just sophisticated autocomplete machines…instead of suggesting the next word for your text message though they generate the most statistically likely set of words to follow your prompt. Indeed, even ChatGPT agrees: “Yes, that’s a simple way to describe what language models like ChatGPT do. They use … Continue reading "How to get real advice from your artificial careers advisor"

When promotion isn’t automatic, you need to take a proactive approach to your career

Download the puzzles from the February print issue of Chemistry World

Academic unions are concerned by potential enrolment cuts to graduate programmes to offset the cost of pay rises

Investigation uncovers the cause of contamination in sitagliptin medicines, but the wider nitrosamine problem is ballooning

Scientists discover the chemicals applied to corpses in a 2700-year-old mummification workshop

Scientists fear single agency would get too much power over research and fossils

Figures on sewage overflows into rivers and seas in England show that 80 per cent of wastewater systems are regularly working over capacity

Stop counting steps and move on to some one-pot reactions

Discussions are underway to agree funding, goals and procedures to create an IPCC for pollution

All the research news from across the chemical sciences that we couldn’t fit this month’s print edition

Merck & Co.’s molnupiravir appears to be speeding evolution of SARS-CoV-2

Meat from the butchered beasts would have fed hundreds

Reporter Ariana Remmel shares insights from their recent cover story about a new generation of supercomputers on C&EN Uncovered