All Columns articles – Page 79

  • Opinion

    Column: Undercover Academic

    2008-10-29T09:33:54Z

    On diversity

  • Opinion

    Notions of nanobots

    2008-10-29T09:33:00Z

    Ubiquitous images of nanobots are 20,000 leagues from reality, warns Phil Ball

  • Opinion

    The most-feared assays

    2008-10-29T09:33:00Z

    Testing times for Derek Lowe

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    Opinion

    Abbes refractometer

    2008-10-29T09:25:00Z

    The other day I found myself in the supermarket staring at a frozen cliff of buttery spreads

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Funding strategies

    2008-10-29T09:18:00Z

    Why chemists are worried about the EPSRC's change in funding strategy

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-09-26T13:07:05Z

    40 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Diamond dogs

    2008-09-26T13:06:00Z

    Beset by continuing political haggling over the license fee.

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    Opinion

    Claisen's flask

    2008-09-26T12:58:00Z

    In the name of effective multi-tasking, modern technology tries to combine as many functions into one small gadget as possible

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    Comment

    2008-09-26T12:08:05Z

    The presidents of the American Chemical Society and the American Chemistry Council discuss their wishlists for the new administration

  • Opinion

    Letters: October 2008

    2008-09-26T12:01:00Z

    With reference to your interview with the new head of the ACC, Cal Dooley (Chemistry World , September 2008, p9), bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates are just two of several hundred chemicals that exhibit oestrogenic activity (EA) in plastics. These chemicals leach from almost all plastics sold today, including polyethylene, ...

  • Opinion

    Is the time ripe for a new second?

    2008-09-26T12:00:00Z

    Philip Ball asks if you can spare him 429 228 004 229 952 oscillations of your time

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2008-09-26T11:58:52Z

    Peribysin E

  • Opinion

    Molecular weight watchers

    2008-09-26T11:56:00Z

    Derek Lowe seeks a cure for 'compound bloat'

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Launch of the LHC

    2008-09-26T11:49:00Z

    The Large Hadron Collider captured the public's imagination but is it time to reconsider funding for particle physics?

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-08-27T11:29:11Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

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    Starting early

    2008-08-27T11:28:00Z

    My first memory of being taught chemistry is being told to learn the names of all the elements, in order.

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    Raschig's rings

    2008-08-27T11:15:00Z

    Few who have listened to the music of Richard Wagner can remain indifferent to it.

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2008-08-27T10:03:38Z

    The chemical sciences lie at the heart of a globally sustainable water supply, writes Elizabeth Milsom

  • Opinion

    Letters: September 2008

    2008-08-27T10:00:00Z

    I would suggest that many of the issues cited as influencing women’s decisions to stay in academic science ( Chemistry World , August 2008, p8) are equally relevant to men’s decisions: the extreme competition for lectureships; fighting for funding; and long antisocial hours. These affect all new academics equally. ...

  • Opinion

    Fitting science into fiction

    2008-08-27T09:58:00Z

    You don't need to understand the science bits, says Philip Ball, just what they represent