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A 60-year search is over: Chemists isolate long-elusive molecules with boron-oxygen triple bonds

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In a new publication in the journal Nature Chemistry, chemists in professor Holger Braunschweig's team at the University of Würzburg, supported by computational work from the team of professor Ashwini K. Phukan at Tezpur University in India, detail their discovery of a method for preparing and isolating a range of surprisingly stable oxoboranes—a challenge that has stood for over 60 years.

Highlights From Healey's UK Budget Announcement

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UK Chancellor John Healey speaks in the House of Commons about his budget measures that he says are built on "fiscal discipline" and intended to give the British public "breathing space." During the speech, Healey outlined plans to impose an additional 3% tax on banks’ profits, to increase taxes on gambling and to target 3.5% of GDP for defense spending by 2035. He also announced updated OBR forecasts on growth and fiscal headroom. (Source: Bloomberg)

Give UK workers right to know colleagues’ pay to prevent disparities, says watchdog

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EHRC says transparency needed to prevent pay discrimination, particularly against women

Workers should have a legal right to know their colleagues’ pay to help prevent pay discrimination, particularly against women, the UK’s human rights watchdog has said.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) made the recommendation in response to government proposals to overhaul equal pay laws, saying workers deserved a right to transparency if they suspected other staff were being paid more for similar work.

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