All articles by Katharine Sanderson – Page 7
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Spoonful of sugar helps the IgNobel prize go down
US researchers have won this year's IgNobel chemistry prize for demonstrating that swimming in syrup is no slower than swimming in water.
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BASF: shift to Asia won't overshadow growth in Europe
German chemicals giant BASF has announced plans to focus on expansion in Europe until 2015.
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NewsBacteria ruled the world billions of years ago in purple oceans
Evidence backing a controversial sulfur-rich model of the Earth's oceans 1.8 billion years ago has been uncovered in molecular fossils.
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Straightforward route to anthrax protection
Anthrax toxins can be disabled with small, simple molecules, scientists in the US claim.
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Coral copes with acidic ups and downs
Coral reefs can tolerate rising and falling ocean pH levels, but are still in danger from increasing ocean acidity, say marine scientists.
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Image of condiments wins photography award
Extreme close ups of salt and pepper have won the Visions of Science award.
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Two become one
Katharine Sanderson finds out about the merger of two companies and the birth of a new business, GE Healthcare, which aims to provide complete medical imaging and personalised healthcare solutions
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Children and pregnant mothers not suitable for pesticide testing, EPA rules
Pesticide testing on children and pregnant women who would not otherwise be exposed to pesticides should be banned.
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23 September 2005: Safety assurances rest on inadequate data, warns report on crop spraying
Ministers are being misled over pesticide health risks, according to a government-commissioned report.
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9 September 2005: Spanish wine researchers put all their grapes in one pot
A young Spanish red-wine grape, Monastrell, will age better and keep its colour if mixed with more robust Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon varieties, researchers claim.
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Fungus fighting tomatoes get sugar boost
Super tomatoes fighting off killer fungi sounds like the plot for a bad sci-fi movie, but could be closer to reality than we thought.
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5 September 2005: The cell cycle colour coded
Researchers in Switzerland and Germany have developed a set of colourful tools for characterising surface proteins on living cells.
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1 September 2005: Nitrogen dioxide levels rising higher than expected over China
Nitrogen dioxide levels in the troposphere over China are increasing at an alarming rate far higher than had been predicted.
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1 September 2005: Olive oil works in the same way as some anti-inflammatory drugs
One component of olive oil - the dialdehyde oleocanthal - has the same enzyme-inhibiting effects as ibuprofen.
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Law-abiding industries
A chemist made some startling predictions 40 years ago that have driven the semiconductor and electronics industries ever since. Katharine Sanderson met Gordon Moore
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29 June 2005: Wet work most important risk factor for skin disease
The harmful effects of 'wet work' on large parts of the population have been neglected for far too long
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Nanotechnology: small science on a big scale
It is time for nanotechnology to make it out of the research lab and into large scale production. Katharine Sanderson finds out some of the problems associated with this from companies that already produce nanomaterials on an industrial scale
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Cooked to perfection
Heston Blumenthal, chef-proprietor of the Fat Duck restaurant, uses chemistry to create unusual dishes. Katharine Sanderson talks to him
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Science on display
Katharine Sanderson meets Richard Friend: inventor, businessman, academic, scientist