All Columns articles – Page 74
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Opinion
Heavy drinking
Alcohol makes us lose balance, but heavy water has the opposite effect. Could a 'heavy' gin and tonic get us drunk but keep us upright?
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Editorial: Food, glorious food
Love it or hate it (who could!) most of us are obsessed with it: we talk about it, we cook it, we like to enjoy it with friends.
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Finding new ways to feed the world
Decades of underinvestment in agricultural research have taken their toll but now is the time to bring in young scientists to find new ways to feed the world, says Ian Crute
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Reliable reactions
Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favourite reactions
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Hunger for h-index
Philip Ball rakes through the findings of new research into the h-index and unearths some top tips for citation-hungry researchers
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OpinionGadolins's condenser
Chemistry is often compared to cookery, and the pages of a typical cookbook read like the pages of the wonderful compendia Organic- and Inorganic Syntheses
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The power of salinity
Philip Ball looks at a new device that creates energy from salinity differences between fresh and sea water
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OpinionLiebig's Kaliapparat
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) was a German chemist, co-discoverer of isomerism, father of agricultural chemistry and revolutionised chemical analysis
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Editorial: Spanish science
You could say that this editorial is completely biased. And, to an extent, it is, as it covers new technologies and focuses on Spain
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Difficult diseases to drug
Derek Lowe wonders why some diseases are easier to drug than others
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Letters: September 2009
Derek Bailey raises his concerns over the amount of carbon sequestration that can occur before oxygen depletion becomes a significant issue (Chemistry World, August 2009, p36) and asks if the relevant calculations have been done. Although the Earth System is complex and exhibits tightly coupled feedback loops, indicative upper limits ...
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Darwin's chemistry
This year marks the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the sesquicentenary of his On the Origin of Species, one of the most important and influential books ever published.