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Research led by the Department of Archaeology, with crucial input from the Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry in the Department of Chemistry, reveals two infants buried in Roman York were laid to rest in costly purple cloth normally reserved for emperors and members of the aristocracy.

A collaboration between the University of York, the University of Leeds, and AstraZeneca has bridged chemistry and engineering to streamline drug synthesis using continuous flow technology, offering a faster, safer, and more scalable future for pharmaceutical manufacturing.

The annual poster competition for our Yr 3 PhD students has taken place, with kind sponsorship once again by Johnson Matthey. This year we were joined by Dr Paul O’Shaughnessy from JM who took time to view posters, chat with participants about their work, and give a talk on recycling platinum group metals.

The findings from a RSC Sustainable Laboratories grant funded project at the University of York have recently been highlighted in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World Magazine.

The complete lifecycle of a manganese complex as it participates in chemically important bond-activation steps has been mapped on timescales from femtoseconds to seconds. Novel, critical, and unexpected, pathways have been identified, which will inform the development of future light-activated reactions.

Often, air pollution is thought of as something that happens outside. Yet the air inside our homes may pose just as significant a risk to our health and as we typically spend 90% of our time indoors, our exposure to pollutants there is higher than outdoor exposure. This is a concern that science has, until recently, been surprisingly slow to address. The University of York is changing that, with a facility unlike anything else in the world.

Scientists say that new laboratory tests have revealed a new way to stop flu viruses, which could lead to better treatments and improved pandemic preparedness.

Researchers from the School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology have joined forces with the Department of Chemistry to create a new type of environmental gas sensor.