All Columns articles – Page 71

  • Opinion

    'Hello, my URL is...'

    2010-02-26T12:13:00Z

    At a party a few years back, instead of nametags the guests wore stickers that said 'hello, my URL is...

  • Opinion

    Letters: March 2010

    2010-02-26T12:13:00Z

    The headline Nuclear waste research resurface s (Chemistry World, January 2010, p12) better profiles my concerns than I could have imagined. In my opinion, and subject to an understanding of tolerability of risk, no toxic material should ever be left to the vagaries of uncertain isolation and abandonment. The public ...

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-02-26T10:41:28Z

    Bibliometric studies of research groups are useful but should be interpreted with great care, suggest Christoph Neuhaus and Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2010-02-26T10:39:35Z

    Idesolide

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-02-26T10:39:32Z

    Richard Catlow, former director of research at the Royal Institution, tells us why it's important to remember the key role the RI has played throughout the history of science

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Vernier scale

    2010-02-26T10:39:00Z

    Sooner or later, it is the fate of every scholar to be accused of pedantry

  • Opinion

    Superatom Musings

    2010-02-26T10:39:00Z

    Superatoms reinforce the notion that chemistry is more about electrons than elements, says Philip Ball

  • Opinion

    Seemed like a good idea

    2010-02-26T10:39:00Z

    Derek Lowe takes a tour of the 'instrument graveyard'

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Second-hand smoke

    2010-02-26T10:22:00Z

    Carcinogens in cigarette smoke hang around indoors like a bad smell

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2010-01-28T15:07:05Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    A fiddle and a fraud

    2010-01-28T15:07:00Z

    Chemistry, I fear, started as a fiddle and a fraud

  • Opinion

    Letters: February 2010

    2010-01-28T15:06:00Z

    Source: © BETTMANN/CORBIS C P Snow - author, physicist, diplomat C P Snow, the subject of Mathew Waugh’s ’Last retort’ (Chemistry World, December 2009, p88), knew and greatly admired J Desmond Bernal. Snow’s first novel The Search (1934) included a character modelled on Bernal and tells the ...

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2010-01-28T13:45:42Z

    Palau'amine

  • Opinion

    Snowflake Symmetry

    2010-01-28T13:45:00Z

    Philip Ball warms up the subject of snowflake structure

  • Opinion

    Papers vs patents

    2010-01-28T13:45:00Z

    Derek Lowe wonders whether peer-reviewed papers or patents are more reliable

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-01-28T13:34:48Z

    Copenhagen raises problems but does not address solutions, says James Barber

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    Opinion

    Petri dish

    2010-01-28T13:34:00Z

    When I was about 16, I came across a peculiar novel in my father's study

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Canadian chemistry

    2010-01-28T13:24:00Z

    From looking at the cover you'd be excused for thinking we were talking about the atrocious weather

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2010-01-06T12:31:05Z

    10 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    The level of disorder

    2010-01-06T12:31:00Z

    Dramatised by Alan Lightman, the second law of thermodynamics incorporates the theory of entropy