All Columns articles – Page 63
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Opinion
The 2010 Nobel prize
The 2010 Nobel prize for physics went to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
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Opinion
Letters: August 2011
I read with interest and some trepidation your recent article on UK copyright laws (Chemistry World, July 2011, p11). The Digital Opportunity report mentioned in the article recommends that the UK Government introduces an exception to its copyright law to allow text and data mining of copyright works for non-commercial ...
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OpinionThe pitfalls that prevent progress
Derek Lowe highlights the less visible pitfalls on the road to a new drug
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Opinion
Molecular metaphors
Philip Ball wonders to what extent molecular structures are metaphorical
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'Absurd', 'roundabout' and 'clumsy'
'Absurd', 'roundabout', 'clumsy' these words well describe the way we turn heat into electric power
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Opinion
Letters: July 2011
Many models of chemical bonding have been proposed over the past century and a half. The one clear concept that comes from all of these is the importance of the chemical bond, a localised interaction between two neighbouring atoms, but as Philip Ball pointed out (Chemistry World, March 2011, p33), ...
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Opinion
Editorial: Pheromones and smells
This month's Totally Synthetic set me to thinking about two very interesting papers I recently saw
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OpinionThe financial funfair
The financial markets can be a rollercoaster ride, writes Derek Lowe, so should chemists working in industry worry about the company share price?
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OpinionThe Evans balance
Easy to use and robust, the Evans or JM balance has been on the market in various forms since 1974
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Opinion
Morris's arsenic entanglement
How principled was William Morris? Philip Ball examines the evidence