All Columns articles – Page 89

  • Opinion

    Nutritional uncertainty

    2006-08-25T14:15:00Z

    I sometimes wonder if Heisenberg wasn't a nutritionist rather than a physicist, because in terms of uncertainty, nutrition science currently takes the biscuit

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    Your views: September 2006

    2006-08-25T14:11:00Z

    Is insistence on the use of Iupac nomenclature diluting the rich traditional language of chemistry?

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    Opinion

    Radioactive recommendations

    2006-08-25T14:02:00Z

    The recent recommendations from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management should prompt a renewed research effort to tackle the problems of nuclear waste storage.

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Evolution and evidence

    2006-08-25T13:59:00Z

    I suspect most of our readers would agree with the statement, 'human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals'.

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2006-07-27T13:05:07Z

    October - 40 years ago; 20 years ago

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    Letters: August 2006

    2006-07-27T13:05:00Z

    From Norman Nicolson The excellent article on serendipity missed one important event (Chemistry World, June 2006, p32). A chemist working for ICI wondered what used could be made of the blue sludge that had to be cleaned out of the bottom of the phthalimide reactor. This was made of ...

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    Your views: August 2006

    2006-07-27T13:05:00Z

    Which chemistry book would you take to your desert island?

  • Opinion

    Making sensors sensible

    2006-07-27T11:33:00Z

    Researchers must consider how sensors can be manufactured reproducibly from the outset, and not as an afterthought, argues David Walt

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Political decision making

    2006-07-27T11:33:00Z

    The UK government had the chance this month to take some bold decisions in two seemingly disparate fields: nanotechnology and energy.

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2006-06-26T10:39:42Z

    July - 10 years ago; 85 years ago; 100 years ago; 195 years ago; 210 years ago

  • Opinion

    Emissions of football

    2006-06-26T10:39:00Z

    From a scientific point of view it's fair to say that currently it's the biochemistry of metatarsal healing that exercises most England fans' concerns

  • Opinion

    Letters: July 2006

    2006-06-26T10:39:00Z

    From Colin Britton I was most interested in the editorial (Chemistry World, June 2006, p2), ’covering the usual sort of stuff’, and recognising that the topics listed, including air quality, synthetic dyes tomatoes, etc, are just some of the things that chemists get up to. I would like to ...

  • Opinion

    Your views: July 2006

    2006-06-26T10:39:00Z

    What, if anything, do chemistry and the arts have in common?

  • Opinion

    Jim Feast: making dreams reality

    2006-06-26T10:38:00Z

    Jim Feast describes himself as a dreamer, but is keen to put his dreams into practice at the Royal Society of Chemistry

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Plastic bag problems

    2006-06-26T10:38:00Z

    Even 'degradable' plastic bags pose a threat.

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2006-05-26T12:54:17Z

    June - 35 years ago; 75 years ago; 80 years ago; 95 years ago; 110 years ago.

  • Opinion

    The right kind of boredom

    2006-05-26T12:54:00Z

    I have nights when I wake up at three and have great difficulty returning to that blissful state whence I came.

  • Opinion

    Letters: June 2006

    2006-05-26T12:54:00Z

    From Sir Harry Kroto Fundamental advances in the chemical sciences are today more vital than in any other area for survival of the human race and the sustainability of our modern way of life. The chemical sciences underpin, in the most fundamental ways, the cutting edge areas of ...

  • Opinion

    Your views: June 2006

    2006-05-26T12:54:00Z

    There is no role for bench chemists: technology will replace them. Discuss.

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    Editorial: Make yourself heard

    2006-05-26T11:43:00Z

    The public perception of chemistry is due for an overhaul.