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Arafat exhumed in poisoning probe

27 November 2012  News and Analysis

An international team of scientists are taking samples from the former Palestinian leader's body to try to discover what killed him


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Roche and the Tamiflu data

27 November 2012 Business

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Company position on access to data for antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) tablets could be softening

End of the road for h-index rankings

27 November 2012 News and Analysis

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Criticism leads US group to stop collating ranked list of living chemists

Solvay launches €300,000 chemistry prize

26 November 2012 Business

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To recognise science that could 'shape tomorrow's chemistry and help human progress’

Protein coat prepares catalyst for cascades  

Protected metal complexes can team up with enzymes for multistep reactions

Spotting silicon in graphene, it's dope  

Better understanding of impurities is a prelude to putting atom-thin material into compute...

Schiff seals deal with Reckitt  

Boards approves $1.4 billion Reckitt offer as Bayer pulls out of running

Record insider trading case hits pharma  

US authorities claim that hedge fund manager made illicit gains of $276 million in respons...

Can the UK fund CCS?  

EU is offering €1.5 billion in funding but lack of co-ordination with UK scheme threaten...

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Up in the air

23 November 2012 Premium contentFeature

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Philip Ball looks at the recent progress in lithium–air battery research - has it stalled?

BPA: friend or foe?  

Nina Notman takes an in-depth look at the ongoing controversy over bisphenol A

Stationary phases move ahead  Premium content

What’s in those columns? Jon Evans looks at the sophisticated materials in chromatograph...

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Full disclosure?

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