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A recent study published 26 May estimates a cumulative monetised impact of at least £1.8 billion on UK science and economy from the UKs synchrotron, Diamond Light Source, reflecting favourably with the £1.2 billion investment made in the facility to date. And it costs less than a cup of coffee as each taxpayer contributes only £2.45 a year towards it. The study measures Diamonds scientific, technological, societal, and economic benefits and highlights the significant impact it...

Machine learning-based systems hope to outperform expert-guided reaction planning technology, finds Andy Extance When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, few chemists must have realised that this might signify a win for them too. But Bartosz Grzybowski did. Then a PhD student at Harvard University in the US, outside chemistry he plays the card game bridge avidly. Grzybowski’s opponents were interested in algorithms like Deep Blue’s. ‘I started...

/PRNewswire/ -- PostEra, a biotechnology company specializing in machine learning for drug discovery, today announced that it has received a grant of £100k...

Monash University Australian scientists pave the way to the first International standards needed to safeguard against contamination from nuclear testing More than 100kg of highly toxic uranium (U) and plutonium (Pu) was dispersed in the form of tiny ‘hot’ radioactive particles after the British detonated nine atomic bombs in remote areas of South Australia, including Maralinga. Scientists have new evidence to show these radioactive particles persist in soils to this day, more than 60 years ...

/PRNewswire/ -- PostEra, a biotechnology company specializing in machine learning for drug discovery, today announced that it has received a grant of £100k...

May 12 2021 X-ray ptychography has recently opened up applications across physical and life sciences at large-scale synchrotron facilities such as the UK’s Diamond Light Source, by producing quantitative phase images with the highest possible spatial resolutions (10’s nm) – going well beyond the conventional limitations of the available X-ray optics. Now an international collaboration of scientists has demonstrated for the first time how the technique of high-resol...

Bringing High-Resolution X-Ray Imaging to the Laboratory May 12, 2021• Physics 14, s63 Researchers have scaled down x-ray ptychography—a high-resolution imaging technique that used to require large, expensive facilities—for use in the lab. D. J. Batey D. J. Batey × X-ray ptychography is a powerful new technique that uses the quantitative phase information in transmitted radiation to create nanometer-resolution images. Researchers have applied the method to image everything from ...

share: This news release, originally issued by Diamond Light Source, describes a template for how to develop directly-acting antivirals that would combat COVID-19. The study focused on a specific part of the Nsp3 gene that SARS-CoV-2 uses to suppress the host cell’s natural antiviral response. Researchers from the University of California used the Highly Automated Macromolecular Crystallography (AMX) and the Frontier Microfocusing Macromolecular Crystallography (FMX) beamlines at the Nat...

Specialism: Computational materials science Membership classification: MRSC     A thriving researcher, Jorge Ontaneda has published several papers in the field of surface science, with primary research interests in the electronic structure of metal-based interfaces for a wide variety of applications. But how he got into chemistry is a fortuity, as he originally wanted to study physics at university and beyond. “There wasn’t an option to study physics at my home university in Loja in Ecu...

Study Illustrates Reasons for Failure of Solid-State Batteries Written by AZoMApr 26 2021 At the Faraday Institution, scientists working in the SOLBAT project have made an important step in comprehending the reasons as to how and why solid-state batteries (SSBs) tend to fail. Image Credit: kkssr/Shutterstock.com Nature Materials on April 22 nd, 2021, researchers offer answers to a crucial piece of this scientific puzzle. Related Stories New battery chemistries “beyond lithium ion” should be...