All Columns articles – Page 94
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Opinion
Editorial: Corporate goodwill
The pharma industry must maintain its support for the areas affected by the tsunami
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Opinion
Your views: February 2005
Q: What one chemistry fact should every member of the public know?
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Opinion
Editorial: Stemming the flow
What should the government do to stop chemistry departments closing?
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Opinion
Letters: April 2005
I wanted to mention that there is an error in the Chemistry World article, Record breakers about the world’s smallest test tube (December 2004, p7). In the initial press release we errantly listed the volume of our test tube as 10-24 litres, or a yoctolitre. In reality, it is 10-21 ...
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Opinion
Your views: January 2005
Is the merger of chemistry departments to form broader science departments a good thing?
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Opinion
Letters: December 2004
From Alberto Nunez Selles, president, Cuban Chemical Society My sincere congratulations for your article Biotechnology: the 2nd Cuban revolution (Chemistry World, November, 2004, p38) giving an objective picture of present bioscience and chemistry R&D in Cuba. Just for historical reasons, I wish to call your attention to a pitfall in ...
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RSC
Stepping up the pace
Simon Campbell believes the Royal Society of Chemistry has a unique opportunity to modernise governance to better meet its internal and external challenges.
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Opinion
Editorial: In praise of risky science
Blue sky research is essential but how do we ensure it gets funding?
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Opinion
Chemical origins
I never cease to marvel at the number of eminent people in virtually every walk of life who started out as chemists.
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Opinion
Letters: October 2004
From Steve Jeffery Readers intrigued by Katharine Sanderson’s review of Carl Djerassi’s play Calculus (Chemistry World, September 2004, p64) and the rivalry between Newton and Leibniz might also be interested in author Neal Stephenson’s hugely ambitious and entertaining alternate history, the three volume Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The confusion, and System ...
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Opinion
Isn't science wonderful?
Physicists are lucky in that many of the fundamental principles of their subject have application in everyday life.