All Columns articles – Page 62

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    Flashback

    2011-09-29T14:43:59Z

    25 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

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    Letters: October 2011

    2011-09-29T14:43:00Z

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has recently announced worrying new policies, which many scientists believe will ’sound the death knell for fundamental scientific research in the UK’. One of the first two to be arbitrarily targeted with reduced funding is synthetic organic chemistry, a subject that is ...

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    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:20:32Z

    Will filling your car with biofuel ever be sustainable? Matthew Aylott says that new technology is set to make this dream a reality

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    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:19:17Z

    Biofuels are needed more urgently than ever, but issues of land use change and management must be considered first, say Jeremy Woods, Seyed Ali Hosseini and Nilay Shah

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    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:18:01Z

    On their return from Monza, Bibiana Campos Seijo talks to the Williams F1 team about tyre performance, fuel and the chemistry of racing

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    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:14:35Z

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is having to make some tough funding decisions, says David Delpy

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    Editorial: Formula One science ambassadors

    2011-09-29T13:52:00Z

    Here's a headline that really stands out

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    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2011-09-29T13:42:00Z

    Synechoxanthin

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    Opinion

    Van de Graaff generator

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    Transport systems can be great unifiers and bringers of development

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    Opinion

    Common sense and safety

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    You have to make space for good sense when thinking about safety, argues Derek Lowe

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    Salt, science, salad and art

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    Were you aware of Salt Awareness week? Me neither, admits Philip Ball

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    Flashback

    2011-08-30T09:49:29Z

    35 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

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    In hot water

    2011-08-30T09:49:00Z

    Water boils at 100°C, right? Wrong

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    Letters: September 2011

    2011-08-30T09:49:00Z

    In his Last retort article on chemical words (Chemistry World, June 2011, p72), David Jones comments that the chemical name of DDT is the only one he knows of which fits perfectly into a poem. Paul Ehrlich’s anti-syphilis drug Salvarsan has also been set to poetry. The following limerick ...

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    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2011-08-26T14:36:38Z

    Gliocladin C

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    Art in science

    2011-08-26T14:35:00Z

    In the art world, chemistry continues to be a rich stimulus to the imagination, says Philip Ball

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    Opinion

    'Pay for delay'

    2011-08-26T14:23:00Z

    Derek Lowe considers an increasingly popular business strategy in the drug industry, the much discussed 'pay for delay' deal

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    McLeod's Vacuum Guage

    2011-08-26T14:02:00Z

    The simmering tensions between science and religion

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    Comment

    2011-08-26T11:44:40Z

    A confused picture has emerged following the EPSRCs funding announcement, says David Phillips

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    Comment

    2011-08-26T11:38:20Z

    Ahead of the 24th General conference on weights and measures in October, Peter Atkins explains the benefits of the new SI