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Business
Business roundup: December 2009
Bolivia to lead the electric revolution Bolivia’s decision to develop commercial scale lithium mining by 2014 is good news for the emerging electric car industry and lithium battery producers, but exactly how one of the world’s poorest nations will accomplish this ambitious goal is still uncertain. Yaron Vorona, executive director ...
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Podcast
November 2009
Chemistry World Podcast - November 200902.04 - How bubbles in champagne pack in the flavour04.30 - Iridescent squid provide inspiration for James Bond's car paint06.28 - Nobel laureate Tom Steitz talks about fame and the ribosome10.47 - Tom Blundell on designing drugs for HIV15.15 - The best evidence yet for ...
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News
Celebrating chemistry
Today 800 chemists will gather to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the birth of chemistry as an academic subject
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News
Profile: Life in the cage
Jens Reich has won the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker award for his scientific achievements and political courage
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Opinion
Letters: November 2009
I read Microwaving myth s (Chemistry World, October 2008, p40) and subsequent letter by Frank Smith, a pioneer in microwave-assisted reactions (Chemistry World, July 2009, p39). It appears that 1985 was the beginning of microwave-assisted chemical reactions based on Smith’s as well as our published work. Our group ...
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Business
Business roundup: November 2009
A new hope for HIV vaccines For the first time ever, a Phase III clinical trial of an HIV vaccine has seen some success. Initial results from the trial, dubbed RV144, showed that a combination of Sanofi-Pasteur’s Alvac and VaxGen’s AidsVAX B/E cut the risk of HIV infection by 31 ...
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News
Paper pesticide sensor
Researchers have developed a paper-based sensor to quickly detect pesticide residues in food and drink samples
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Opinion
Letters: October 2009
We feel obliged to respond to Prof Morel-Desrosiers’ criticisms (Chemistry World, August 2009, p36) of an earlier article highlighting a paper of ours (Chemistry World, May 2009, p5). This paper (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 3129) describes the formation, in an aqueous mixture, of unusual clam-like species in ...