National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards
admin The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation. Source link
April 2025
The genesis of OH-stretching vibrational circular dichroism in chiral molecular crystals
The stretching vibration of hydroxyl groups, ν(OH), appears with a strong absorption in the 3 µm region of the infrared (IR) spectrum. In chiral molecular crystals, also vibrational circular dichroism…
Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000
Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019. Source link
A review of machine learning methods for imbalanced data challenges in chemistry
Imbalanced data, where certain classes are significantly underrepresented in a dataset, is a widespread machine learning (ML) challenge across various fields of chemistry, yet it remains inadequately addressed. This data…
Secure Future Initiative reveals Microsoft staff focus
Every Microsoft employee now has a metric dubbed “Security Core Priority” tied directly to performance reviews. This is among the changes the software giant has put in place to…
High-Throughput Encapsulated Nanodroplet Screening for Accelerated Co-Crystal Discovery
Co-crystals are composed of two or more chemically inequivalent molecular species, excluding solvents, generally in a stoichiometric ratio. Co-crystals are particularly important in pharmaceutical development, where a suitable co-crystal can…
Cyber attack downs systems at Marks & Spencer
Veteran UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has apologised to customers after a cyber incident of a currently undisclosed nature forced multiple public-facing services offline, with shoppers predictably taking…
Giant mechanical tunability by coordination bond strategy in a 3D hybrid cyanide double perovskite ferroelastic with reconstructive phase transition
Three-dimensional (3D) cyanide hybrid organic-inorganic double perovskites (CHOIPs) have abundant electrical, optical, thermal, and magnetic properties due to their diverse chemical variability and structural flexibility, making them promising for applications…
Virgin Media O2 cuts carbon emissions 56% against its 2020 baseline
For all communications services providers, sustainability and energy reduction are not just worthy goals, they have become business imperatives. With this in mind, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has revealed…
Removing redundancy of the NCN codons in vitro for maximal sense codon reassignment
Expanding the genetic code affords exciting opportunities for synthetic biology, studies of protein function, and creation of diverse peptide libraries by mRNA display. Maximal expansion with the standard 64 codon…