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New Scientist: We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them from nuclear waste?
22 April 2026The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That’s why companies are scrambling to refine them from all manner of radioactive waste.
Science: Whistleblower alleges Finnish startup’s vaunted solid-state battery isn’t what it claims
22 April 2026Donut Lab’s assertions of lightning-fast charging and high energy storage have led to a criminal complaint.
Nature: Fresh claim of making elusive ‘hexagonal’ diamond is the strongest yet
04 March 2026After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon.
C&EN: Copper finally joins the metallocene club
17 February 2026More than 70 years after ferrocene’s discovery, cuprocene fills a long-standing gap in the sandwich menu.
C&EN: Lighting a better path for biobased furans
16 January 2026Photocatalytic hydrolysis offers a shortcut for renewable chemicals.
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Author Archives: Mark Peplow
C&EN: Porphyrins Run Rings Around Each Other
Concentric nanorings mimic photosynthetic complexes.
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Chemistry World: After Tianjin
China’s appalling chemical safety record demands a global response.
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Technologist: Life after Skype
Estonian programmer Jaan Tallinn helped create the file-sharing application Kazaa and then the famous video-call system. Now he wants to save the world.
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ACS Central Science: A Conversation with John Maier
The spectroscopist discusses the search for buckyballs in deep space.
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Nature: The tiniest Lego
Inspired by biology, chemists have created a cornucopia of molecular parts that act as switches, motors and ratchets. Now it is time to do something useful with them.
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Chemistry World: Credit where credit’s due
Disputes over authorship can be a source of conflict in the lab. The solution is greater transparency.
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Nautilus: The Reinvention of Black
As the means of creating the color black have changed, so have the subjects it represents.
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Chemistry World: Down to business
To make the economic case for research, scientists need to understand how commercialisation works.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Copper Clusters Convert Carbon Dioxide To Methanol
Four-atom copper fragments speed up greenhouse gas conversion without piling on the pressure
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ACS Central Science: A Conversation with Henry Snaith
The Oxford physicist is racing to bring perovskite solar cells to market
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