Chemistry

• South Korean R&D budget to soar - Premium content

  Materials science and green technology should win large funding increases.

  19 November 2009

• Japanese science faces deep cuts - Premium content

  The government's election promises vowed more support for science, but so far budgets look set to shrink.

  17 November 2009

• Initiative targets malaria eradication - Premium content

  Focus shifts to blocking parasite transmission.

  3 November 2009

• New targets for old drugs - Premium content

  A computer program predicts thousands of previously unknown drug-target associations.

  1 November 2009

• Fatal frog fungal disease figured out - Premium content

  Electrolyte imbalance stops amphibians' hearts.

  22 October 2009

• Flies get fright from false memories - Premium content

  Scientists use light activation to pinpoint where learning happens in fruit flies.

  15 October 2009

• Key protein-design papers challenged - Premium content

  Chemists question stability of proteins from 2003 Nature study.

  14 October 2009

• Structural biology bags chemistry prize - Premium content

  Chemistry Nobel for trio who described the ribosome.

  14 October 2009

• 'Urgency' needed on carbon capture - Premium content

  But politicians fail to back their calls with fresh funding.

  14 October 2009

• Protein-design papers challenged - Premium content

  Reanalysis does not find same results as key 2003 study.

  12 October 2009