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Opinion
Letters: April 2007
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
Derek Lowe wonders whether total synthesis is still worth the effort
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Battling bacteria with copper
Copper doorknobs could be the latest - and oldest - way to beat the bugs
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Opinion
Editorial: Chemistry and climate change
The UK government has long seen itself as a world leader in tackling climate change
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Opinion
Letters: March 2007
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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Opinion
The beauty of biomimicry
Understanding why nature's materials are so smart could be the first step to educating our own dumb polymers, argues Philip Ball
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Mergers: a cost-benefit analysis
Do the benefits of pharmaceutical company mergers really outweigh the costs, asks Derek Lowe
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Opinion
Letters: February 2007
From Peter Swindells I must disagree with my former colleague Roger Lintonbon that marine organisms can provide a sink for increasing levels of carbon dioxide (Chemistry World, January 2007, p34). Increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide does not lead to increased phytoplankton growth because it is not carbon ...
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Opinion
Science's secret recipe
Derek Lowe wonders whether the secret recipe for scientific breakthroughs can be taught – and how much indigestion that recipe would cause in the boardroom
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Opinion
The tyranny of peer review
A less conservative approach would foster high-risk, high-return research, argues Sir John O'Reilly
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Opinion
Life's proton shepherds
Philip Ball uncovers how life shepherds protons around the cell with breathtaking ingenuity
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OpinionEditorial: Time to collaborate
Collaborate or die. That's the message of a series of reports from the independent thinktank Demos