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Breaking Bredt’s rule a century later

Jenusiya JeyaseelanJanuary 13, 2025January 14, 202508 mins

Jenusiya Jeyaseelan reports on the groundbreaking discovery of chemical bonds that break the well-established Bredt’s rule.

Lola BellDecember 12, 2024December 12, 2024012 mins

Lola Bell reports on the journey of protein structure discovery leading to the awards for the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Olivia AllenNovember 20, 2024November 20, 202409 mins

Olivia Allen reports on the launch of the Europa Clipper, which will reach Jupiter’s moon Europa in the year 2030.

Jen JiangNovember 18, 2024November 18, 202407 mins

Jen Jiang reports on a new study involving the induction of endosymbiosis to investigate a key step of eukaryotic evolution.

Divya GaneshNovember 11, 2024November 11, 2024010 mins

Divya Ganesh reports on the experiments causing Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun to win the 2024 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

Corenna TwissNovember 3, 2024November 3, 202409 mins

Corenna Twiss reports on the recent retraction of a seminal stem cell paper with over 4,500 citations due to evidence of data falsification.

Andrea La FleurNovember 1, 2024November 1, 202409 mins

Andrea La Fleur reports on how John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on machine learning.

Angelina ShcherbakovaOctober 29, 2024October 29, 202407 mins

Angelina Shcherbakova reports on the recent outbreak of the Marburg virus and how Rwanda are dealing with this public health concern.

Sinibaldo Romero ArochaOctober 12, 2024October 12, 202409 mins

Sinibaldo Romero Arocha reports on a new study published in Science showing that the dye in doritos can turn mice transparent.

Malintha Hewa BatageOctober 11, 2024October 18, 2024011 mins

Malintha Hewa Batage reports on a new initiative involving the University of Oxford, which could revolutionise preventative cancer treatment.