U.S. butane exports reached a new record in 2024
admin In-brief analysis March 6, 2025 The United States is exporting record volumes of normal butane as global demand for liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) surges. U.S.…
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WEB EXCLUSIVE | How COVID-19 has hit India’s fight against TB
It is slowly becoming apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic, which first hit India in early 2020, has had devastating and long-lasting effects on the nation’s ability to achieve its tuberculosis…
MWC 2025: G+D, AWS reimagine cloud-based eSIM offerings
Noting that the technology’s global market value is expected to grow from $4.7bn to 2023 to $16.3bn by 2027, driven by increasing adoption in smartphones, internet of things (IoT)…
Isothiourea-Catalysed Enantioselective Synthesis of Phosphonate-Functionalised β-lactones
Despite growing interest in the reactivity and biological activity of phosphonate-containing molecules, the application of α‑ketophosphonates in enantioselective cycloadditions to generate β-lactones bearing a pendant phosphonate group remains unreported. In…
Behind the Indian cough syrup that killed many in Gambia and Uzbekistan
It was a scandal the Indian government was least prepared for. Just two months ago, a controversy erupted involving the death of 66 children in the Gambia allegedly after taking…
Big bank systems crashed for over 800 hours in last two years due to IT outages
Nine of the UK’s biggest banks accumulated over 33 days of IT downtime over the last two years with millions of people affected. Data received from banks by MPs…
Asymmetric synthesis of metallocenes with planar and central chirality by rhodium-catalyzed desymmetrization reactions
Metallocenes with planar and central chirality have emerged as a privileged skeleton for chiral ligand design, and such ligands have exhibited tremendous success in various asymmetric catalysis protocols. Herein, we…
Obesity: What you need to know as it grows to ‘epidemic proportions’
Obesity is a chronic disease that affects millions of people worldwide and has become a major health problem. It has spread to almost every corner of the planet to the…
On World Malaria Day, the battle against malaria and beyond
The Anopheles Gambiae mosquito, pictured here in this undated photo, is the most common mosquito species in Africa and the primary Malaria-causing vector in humans. A malaria treatment considered the…
Ransomware: from REvil to Black Basta, what do we know about Tramp?
September 2020: An affiliate of the ransomware company REvil reveals the details of a cyber attack he carried out a few months earlier against the French company Elior. At…