All Columns articles – Page 86

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    Comment

    2007-05-24T11:32:29Z

    Peter Cotgreave reflects on what 10 years under Tony Blair's leadership have done for UK science

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    Editorial: Dear Gordon Brown

    2007-05-24T11:28:00Z

    Gordon Brown's new job

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    Flashback

    2007-04-27T09:57:25Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

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    Chemists in the screen scene

    2007-04-27T09:57:00Z

    Chemical Oscars

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    Letters: May 2007

    2007-04-27T09:57:00Z

    From Peter Plesch I wish to challenge Ted Nield’s Comment piece (Chemistry World, March 2007, p38). As chair of the Association of British Science Writers, he should know better than to lump together science and technology. Science is about finding and developing ideas about Nature in the widest ...

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    Comment

    2007-04-27T09:20:08Z

    Scientists should embrace a universal ethical code, says Sir David King, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser

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    Editorial: Mining traditional Chinese medicines

    2007-04-27T09:20:00Z

    China holds great opportunities, but their drug industry must clean up its act

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    Controversial colloid chemistry

    2007-04-27T09:20:00Z

    Philip Ball reflects on the long-running debate about how colloids stick together

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    Reasons to be cheerful

    2007-04-27T09:20:00Z

    After months of bleak news about faltering pipelines and redundancies, it's time to find reasons to be cheerful about the drug industry, says Derek Lowe.

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    Flashback

    2007-03-28T13:35:18Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

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    News from the future – May 2027

    2007-03-28T13:35:00Z

    Yet more land goes back to nature

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    Letters: April 2007

    2007-03-28T13:35:00Z

    From Clifford Jones In the UK, batches of faulty petrol were recently found to have been contaminated with silicon (see p11). Burning this fuel would have formed silica (SiO2) particles which clogged the oxygen sensor at the exhaust, causing it to fail in its role in ’engine management’. ...

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    Justifying total synthesis

    2007-03-28T11:39:00Z

    Derek Lowe wonders whether total synthesis is still worth the effort

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    Battling bacteria with copper

    2007-03-28T11:39:00Z

    Copper doorknobs could be the latest - and oldest - way to beat the bugs

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    Comment

    2007-03-28T11:37:35Z

    The UK's National Health Service is paying over the odds for its drugs, an Office of Fair Trading report claims. Not so, argues Richard Barker

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    Editorial: Chemistry and climate change

    2007-03-28T11:36:00Z

    The UK government has long seen itself as a world leader in tackling climate change

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    Letters: March 2007

    2007-03-01T10:57:00Z

    From Clive Delmonte Sir John O’Reilly’s comment on peer review covers many pertinent points, but I feel there is a further crucial aspect to consider (Chemistry World, February 2007, p36). The accepted paradigms in science are that non-experts defer to the opinion of experts, while the experts ...

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    MySpace

    2007-03-01T10:55:00Z

    There are more than 140 million registered users on MySpace

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    Flashback

    2007-03-01T10:54:11Z

    40 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

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    The beauty of biomimicry

    2007-02-28T15:15:00Z

    Understanding why nature's materials are so smart could be the first step to educating our own dumb polymers, argues Philip Ball