Asafoetida
With a name that literally means rotten resin, asafoetida is a surprising food additive and deodorant (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 22, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Katrina Krämer Source Type: research

US biotech director accused of insider trading
Biostatistics chief at Akebia charged with securities fraud (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 22, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Rebecca Trager Source Type: research

Electric choc treatment promises lower fat chocolate
Problem of reduced fat chocolate gumming up factories’ pipelines overcome (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 22, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: James Urquhart Source Type: research

EU referendum
What will the consequences be for science? (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 22, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: none none Source Type: research

BASF boosts coatings with Chemetall buyout
$3.2bn purchase from Albemarle continues BASF’s efforts to expand and refocus its coatings division (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 22, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Phillip Broadwith Source Type: research

Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Sorting the beef from the bull
This month we discuss the ubiquitous nature of food fraud and its detection (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 22, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: none none Source Type: research

New German excellence strategy gets political go-ahead
Scheme will provide €500 million to bolster country’s best universities and fund best research (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 21, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Constanze Böttcher Source Type: research

Computer program pins down carbon capturing ionic liquids
Simulations take guesswork out of finding optimal conditions for CO2 capture (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 21, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Emma Stephen Source Type: research

Metals boss admits illegal export plot
Global Metallurgy chief conspired to export restricted metals to Iran (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 21, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Rebecca Trager Source Type: research

Licence to drill
Catriona Gebbie talks to Nina Notman about life as the only analytical chemist on board a North Sea oil production platform (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 21, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Nina Notman Source Type: research

Opening the gated membrane floodgates
A layer of liquid creates switchable, anti-fouling membranes for water purification, biofuel processing and lab-on-chip applications (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 21, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Fiona Case Source Type: research

Judge voids Merck & Co’s $200m patent claim
‘Serious misconduct’ kills case over Gilead’s hepatitis C drugs (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 21, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Rebecca Trager Source Type: research

Carbon dioxide reduction put under the spotlight
Rhenium catalyst that responds to visible light can effectively reduce carbon dioxide (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 20, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: James Moore Source Type: research

Better windows with aerogels
Researchers have developed ways of making improved, cheaper transparent silica aerogel composites that could revolutionise windows (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 20, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Fiona Case Source Type: research

Sulfate aerosols and the summer that wasn’t
After the Mount Tambora megavolcano erupted in 1815, the years that followed had weather that changed the world, as Mike Sutton explains (Source: Chemistry World | Latest News)
Source: Chemistry World | Latest News - June 17, 2016 Category: Chemistry Authors: Mike Sutton Source Type: research