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Opinion
Letters: February 2009
From Carl Djerassi In your December editorial (Chemistry World, December 2008, p2), you claim that it is rare for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, and rarer still to find a story with a character who is a real-life scientist. Perhaps you are too busy editing a journal ...
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Business
Business roundup: February 2009
Dow’s Rohm and Haas deal on the rocks Despite having cleared European regulatory hurdles, Dow’s takeover of Rohm and Haas is hanging in the balance after state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) scuttled their $17.4 billion (£11.9 billion) K-Dow joint venture deal just days before it was set to close. ...
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Opinion
Letters: January 2009
By the time I read your feature on whisky (Chemistry World, December 2008, p40) the magazine’s packaging had been binned. So I could not sample the whisky miniature that must have accompanied this excellent article. CW is, after all, the official organ of a professional body still associated with ...
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News
Note book: January 2009
India’s basic research fund Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced a new independent agency will be set up to fund the country’s basic science and engineering research. The National Science and Engineering Research Board will begin funding operations from 1 April 2009, and is expected to control a ...
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Business
Business roundup: January 2009
EU slams pharma delaying tactics Pharmaceutical manufacturers have been criticised by the EU competition commission for slowing the entry of generic medicines to the market. It says that such practices cost EU taxpayers €3 billion between 2000 and 2007. The accusations come in a preliminary report on the Commission’s inquiry ...
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Podcast
January 2009
Chemistry World Podcast - January 200900:12 -- Introduction01:58 -- Chemists take control of robo-moths 04:27 -- Did meteorite strikes seed life on earth?07:18 -- Fraser Stoddart discusses the impact of Richard Feynman's famous 'Plenty of room at the bottom' talk, fifty years on 13:54 ...
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Podcast
December 2008
Chemistry World Podcast - December 200800:10 -- Introduction02:18 -- Forest fungus makes diesel direct from cellulose05:12 -- Schemes to trap carbon dioxide in rock 08:04 -- Al Darzins describes the potential biofuel bonanza that is quick-growing microalgae 14:40-- ...
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News
Keeping women in science
RSC reports suggest ways to improve the PhD experience for female chemists