All articles by Chemistry World – Page 28

  • Opinion

    Letters: August 2010

    2010-07-30T09:16:00Z

    I was interested to read Philip Ball’s piece on the automated future of chemical crystallography, based on work at St Andrew’s University, Scotland, UK, to develop an entirely automatic diffractometer capable of ’flexible thinking’ designed to mimic the thought process of a crystallographer (Chemistry World, June 2010, p34). While this ...

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-07-30T08:51:55Z

    School children in the UK are told oil will run out by 2050, but oil companies expect production to be about the same as it is today, writes Richard Pike

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-07-30T08:49:00Z

    Scientist Michael Brooks stood for parliament at the last election against an MP who favours homeopathy and medical astrology. He lost. Should we worry?

  • News

    In the papers

    2010-07-30T07:53:07Z

    Short items

  • News

    Note book

    2010-07-29T14:19:56Z

    Short items, August 2010

  • News

    News in Brief

    2010-07-29T14:19:55Z

    Short items, August 2010

  • Business

    Business roundup: August 2010

    2010-07-29T14:19:00Z

    Bittersweet victory for GSK’s Avandia GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received a muted ’thumbs up’ from a US regulatory advisory panel for its much-maligned Type 2 diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), making it likely the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow the UK-based pharma giant to continue selling the drug in ...

  • News

    Microspheres help restore eyesight

    2010-07-22T14:10:00Z

    Polymer microspheres could deliver stem cells to the eyes of patients to help restore sight destroyed by a common eye disease

  • Podcast

    July 2010

    2010-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Chemistry World Podcast - July 201000:12- Introduction01:29- Vodka's molecular cocktail 05:04- Antibacterial silver nanoparticles grown in bacteria 08:03- Todd Sacktor from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York, US, explains how memories can be wiped clean away ...

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2010-06-25T12:37:13Z

    15 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Letters: July 2010

    2010-06-25T12:15:00Z

    Like Pickard (Chemistry World, May 2010, p40), I am disappointed that the BBC did not find a chemist to present Chemistry: a volatile history, but I am not amazed that a physicist, Jim Al-Khalili, ’made an excellent job of it’. After all, chemistry is a physical science. The Royal Society ...

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-06-25T11:02:42Z

    The end of the UK's Eastern Region Biotechnology Initiative (Erbi) marks the beginning of a new era, writes Harriet Fear, former chief executive of Erbi

  • Business

    Business roundup: July 2010

    2010-06-25T10:54:00Z

    Eight convicted for Bhopal disaster More than 25 years after one of the worst industrial accidents in living memory, the Magistrate’s court in Bhopal, India, has convicted eight former Union Carbide employees of ’causing death by criminal negligence’. The eight convicted include Keshub Mahindra, former chairman of the Indian subsidiary ...

  • Podcast

    June 2010

    2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Chemistry World Podcast - June 201000:12- Introduction 01:23- Chemical secrets of dinobird revealed 04:35- Frosty asteroid surprises astronomers 07:45- Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Intitute of Technology, US, on why butterfly wings appear coloured ...

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2010-05-27T10:51:12Z

    25 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Letters: June 2010

    2010-05-27T10:51:00Z

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Royal Society's King Charles II medal

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-05-27T10:02:24Z

    A passion for science will be more important than a PhD for members of the UK's new parliament, argues Diana Garnham

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-05-27T09:53:24Z

    Mark Welland underlines the importance of funding scientific research to ensure that the UK Ministry of Defence stays ahead of the game

  • Business

    Business roundup: June 2010

    2010-05-27T09:53:00Z

    The green shoots of a chemical spring Recent data seem to suggest that the chemical industries have weathered the worst of the economic storm, at least for now. Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council, has updated its Chemical Trends report which shows that the European chemicals industry has now ...

  • News

    Comment: Cooperation, collaboration and compromise

    2010-05-14T14:15:00Z

    The UK's scientific community will have to change its strategy if it is to build a fruitful relationship with the new coalition government, says Diana Garnham