International – Pagina 10
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InternationalIt’s not just about money
The government’s massive budget cuts are sparking deep concern across academia. In this column, Isabelle Kohler outlines the primary effects of these cuts on research, higher education, and innovation, with a specific focus on PhD students.
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InternationalThe Thinking Game takes you behind the scenes at DeepMind
The documentary The Thinking Game follows newly minted Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis and his team during the development of AlphaFold.
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InternationalPure iron carbide phase nurtures alpha-olefins
Careful pretreatment of your iron catalyst enables the highly efficient production of chemical building blocks in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor, an Eindhoven-Beijing team reports in Nature (after a 5-year reviewing period).
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InternationalWhen persistence bears fruit: from invisible effort to visible success
As she celebrates her first year writing for C2W International, Isabelle Kohler reflects on how persistent effort can shape our professional journey. She draws parallels between her writing activity and PhD journey, both relying on invisible work behind visible achievements.
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InternationalPodium: Ludovic Jourdin
Our members form the beating heart of our societies. Here, we regularly highlight one of them. This time, it’s NBV-member Ludovic Jourdin.
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InternationalBiosurfactant synthesis in deep eutectic solvents
Natural deep eutectic solvents can be used to produce an interesting biosurfactant in a more sustainable way without organic solvents, Antwerp researchers write in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry.
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InternationalBiochemical alchemy, greasy proteins and quantum molecules: Vidi grants have been announced
A variety of molecular science project can take off thanks to an NWO Vidi grant. Ranging from CO2 fixation and supramolecular materials capable of learning to AI and sweet molecules.
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InternationalClumping pests
A team from Umeå University in Sweden has been studying how bacteria pass on their resistance genes to each other, resulting in a beautiful picture.
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InternationalKNCV Gold Medal 2024 awarded to Caroline Paul
Jury praises her pioneering and creative research on biocatalysis, which opens new technological routes towards sustainable chemical production.
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InternationalArtificial cell communication: protein on demand
Researchers in Eindhoven have developed an artificial cell system that mimics the mutual communication of biological cells.
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InternationalReducing enzyme can also oxidise
NADPH dehydrogenase can not only reduce but also oxidise by simply raising the pH, as researchers from Delft show in ChemCatChem.
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InternationalThriving in academia with a chronic condition
Isabelle Kohler shares her experience of navigating academia while managing health struggles, offering practical strategies for others to thrive too.
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InternationalEnzyme Superheroes
Ivana Drienovská specializes in designing enzymes for reactions that do not occur in nature.
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InternationalHarnessing AI for a greener future
Using AI, Nongnuch Artrith predicts which new materials have the most potential. This way, AI can help us create a greener future.
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InternationalElectricity from greenhouse gas eating bacteria
Cornelia Welte is working on a battery in which methane is converted into green energy through microbes.
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InternationalA customised cellular living environment
Maritza Rovers builds a microgel that supports damaged cells in our bodies.
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InternationalBuilding with (pruning) wood
Burning construction waste and wood is not efficient. Beyond Wood produces building materials from pruning waste that can be used more than once.
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InternationalMachine learning and computational hydrogenation: an experiment
Chemists from Delft published one of the largest datasets of a model of rhodium-catalysed hydrogenation that showed surprisingly little.
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InternationalNobel Prize in Chemistry goes to protein folding computer
Source: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach Left to right: David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the prediction of protein structure and folding.