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UK will fast track visas for top scientists post-Brexit

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that top scientists will be allowed to apply for fast-track visas under new immigration rules post-Brexit.

Type: News

Novel wearable gas sensor

RESEARCHERS at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea have developed a wearable sensor that can detect volatile gases and immediately notify users through a holographic image. The inexpensive, ultracompact device could help avoid gas accidents.

Type: News

CSB releases safety video on paper mill incident

THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video about the 2020 fatal incident at the Evergreen Packaging paper mill in Canton, North Carolina, US.

Type: News

Fight for Port Talbot steel jobs ‘is not over’ say unions despite Tata Steel final decision

UNIONS have promised strike action after Tata Steel rejected their plan to keep one blast furnace open at its Port Talbot site in South Wales, the largest steelworks in the UK.

Type: News

IChemE Matters – November 2023

Nigel Hirst on the merits of mentoring; Allyson Woodford previews Chemeca 2023 and readers respond to UK climate policy shift

Type: News

E. coli engineered to make serine

Useful for detergents, cosmetics, biochemicals

Type: News

New way to spin artificial silk

Water streams cause fibrils to stick together

Type: News

Planetary dust has 3D-printing potential

May provide building blocks for future settlements

Type: News

Trump aims to lift offshore drilling bans

Executive order signed despite low oil demand

Type: News

Geoffrey Hewitt: 1934–2019

GEOFFREY (“Geoff”) Hewitt, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, passed away peacefully on 18 January 2019.

Type: News

We Only Get Them When We’re Good!

In the fifth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to society, Tony Ginsberg shares the joy and shared benefits of volunteering to support science and maths classes at a local primary school

Type: Feature

How to Build a Retina

Chemical synthesis of a retina, and how it can ‘see’ the world around it

Type: Feature

Iron ore prices set for major fall

Australian government expects wider earnings climb

Type: News

Air Products bids for China gas leader

Deal would strengthen position in key growth market

Type: News

UK invests £229m in research centres

Continues strategy to strengthen UK science

Type: News

Imperial Oil plans C$2bn cold lake project

Expansion project can cut CO2 emissions & water use

Type: News

ChemChina, Saudi Aramco, NICDP sign MoU

Deal to explore chemical investments in Saudi Arabia

Type: News

Living cartilage tissue 3D-printed

Bio-inks breakthrough in osteoarthritis treatment

Type: News