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Wearable technology
The future of wearable gadgets will be tiny, flexible, skin-like devices capable of monitoring your health
Hydrothermal vents and the origins of life
Did life start on land or underwater?
Fresenius to buy Akorn and Merck KGaA’s biosimilars
Deals give Fresenius’s entry into rapidly growing biological drugs market
Carbon Clean Solutions and Veolia team up to expand carbon capture and re-use
New partnership will further develop the use of carbon capture technology on industrial scale
How do chemical firms last hundreds of years?
What distinguishes companies that thrive from others that failed?
Online tool tracks bio-based materials
E-certificates automatically trace ingredients through supply chain processes
Job cuts at Amgen, Takeda and Vertex
Takeda reorganising following Ariad takeover, while Amgen and Vertex move staff to Cambridge and San Francisco hubs
EU conditionally approves Dow–DuPont merger
To satisfy competition concerns, DuPont will its swap crop protection R&D assets for FMC’s nutrition business
Fancy a job in Tarragona, Spain?
Chemistry in the sun and long lunch breaks make up for the tight budget and quiet lifestyle
Go west: the impact of scientist movement in Europe
Despite migration of scientists, eastern European paper output has increased
People power: EU chemical workforce and industry turnover
According to the European Chemical Industry Council, the EU chemical industry has a £450 billion turnover and some 1.1 million direct employees
The EU member brain drain
Joining the EU doesn’t improve science for the new member state
Rankings shouldn’t matter, but they do
Scoring universities is flawed yet still highly influential
How to put together a research proposal
The five points researchers should remember when pitching for funds
