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Editorial: Our new features
It's rare that Chemistry World uses this column to advertise itself. But this month, please indulge us for a moment as we tell you about all the new features we've added.
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Contaminated food: confusion in the coverage
Following the release of the WWF report Chain of contamination: the food link, John Henry and Fiona Fox comment on the study, and its coverage in the media
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Monopoly for chemists
Despite its venerable history, the board game Monopoly is as popular as ever and continues to inspire new variations on the classic theme.
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Letters: October 2006
From Ron Denney It was a great pleasure to read the article on Research Triangle Park (RTP) in North Carolina, US (Chemistry World, September 2006, p62). I was fortunate enough to see the Research Triangle in its early days when it was struggling for success. At the time ...
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Your views: October 2006
Physics has the origins of the universe; biology has the origins of life. But what are the 'big' scientific challenges for chemistry?
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Editorial: Conference calls
Conferences are the lifeblood of any collaborative science, and the past month has seen two excellent meetings that highlighted the best in chemistry from both sides of the Atlantic.
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Age discrimination in the workplace
New UK age discrimination legislation came into force on 1 October. Employers should see it as a perfect opportunity to balance their workforce, says Craig Fleming
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Letters: September 2006
From Basil Walby As a statistician, former editor of The Analyst, and now a grumpy old man, I was disappointed to see that RSC Publishing is promoting spurious precision in its advertisement in Chemistry World (July 2006, p47). Impact factors are notoriously variable, making the quotation to ...
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Nutritional uncertainty
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
Is insistence on the use of Iupac nomenclature diluting the rich traditional language of chemistry?
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The recent recommendations from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management should prompt a renewed research effort to tackle the problems of nuclear waste storage.
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Editorial: Evolution and evidence
I suspect most of our readers would agree with the statement, 'human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals'.
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Letters: August 2006
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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Making sensors sensible
Researchers must consider how sensors can be manufactured reproducibly from the outset, and not as an afterthought, argues David Walt
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Editorial: Political decision making
The UK government had the chance this month to take some bold decisions in two seemingly disparate fields: nanotechnology and energy.