Materials and instrumentsAll reagents and solvents used for the synthesis of the compounds were purchased from Aldrich and Acros companies and used without further purification. 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra were recorded using a Varian Mercury plus 400NB spectrometer,...
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China has seen increasing international enrolments as its universities grow in stature, but this has also brought challenges.Credit: Yang Bo/China News Service/VCG via GettyIn 2018, I argued that China’s meteoric growth in research output masked deeper structural issues, including inconsistent...
After more than a decade of planning, the launch of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) is being celebrated in Mombasa, Kenya, this week at the Seventh Biennial Scientific Conference on Medical Products Regulation in Africa. The agency’s establishment marks a...
The smoldering rubble after the World Trace Center collapsed on 11 September, 2001. Credit: Porter Gifford/Corbis/GettyAfter interviewing health-care workers who had responded to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in New York City, Erin Smith, a disaster-response researcher at...
To produce enough ‘critical metals’ such as copper, lithium and nickel to support the green-energy transition, the mining industry needs to boost operations two-to-fivefold worldwide by 20501. Geopolitical tensions, environmental damage and social conflicts will constrain this growth2. But another...
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 01 November 2025 The fringe-lipped bat ambushes its prey, helping to make it an exceptionally efficient hunter. Source link...
Joo, K. et al. High performance package-level EMI shielding of Ag epoxy composites with spray method for high frequency FCBGA package application. In Proc. 2018 IEEE 20th Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC) 674–680 (IEEE, 2018).Erickson, S. & Sakaguchi, M. Application...
Nature, Published online: 24 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03487-6Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count. Source link...
Elkhorn coral off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. Credit: Sam Hodge/AlamyTwo years after a record-setting heatwave, scientists have confirmed that two iconic corals that have flourished across Florida’s 560-kilometre-long reef for more than 10,000 years are now ‘functionally extinct’...
