All Last retort articles – Page 9

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The 2010 Nobel prize

2011-07-29T09:11:00Z

The 2010 Nobel prize for physics went to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
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'Absurd', 'roundabout' and 'clumsy'

2011-06-30T11:52:00Z

'Absurd', 'roundabout', 'clumsy' these words well describe the way we turn heat into electric power
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The language of chemistry

2011-05-31T13:07:00Z

The language of chemistry has changed greatly during my lifetime
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On paper

2011-04-28T10:03:00Z

Paper must be one of the great chemical inventions
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Some liquids are immiscible with others

2011-03-30T10:23:00Z

Some liquids are immiscible with others
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Get real

2011-02-24T12:01:00Z

Get real
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Napoleon's wallpaper

2011-01-31T11:43:00Z

Napoleon's wallpaper
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Sparks of illumination

2011-01-05T11:50:00Z

Sparks of illumination
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Strike a light

2010-11-30T08:38:00Z

Strike a light
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Glass

2010-10-28T13:07:00Z

Glass is amazing stuff
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Elemental

2010-09-28T12:07:00Z

The old alchemical elements were ancient Greek: earth, air, fire and water
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Science sells?

2010-08-27T14:41:00Z

'Science sells' may not be as lucrative a cliché as its alliterative cousin
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Sulfur or sulphur?

2010-07-30T09:16:00Z

Sulfur or sulphur? The controversy over the spelling of element number 16 rumbles on
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Oinking and squawking

2010-06-25T12:25:00Z

There's been lot of oinking and squawking over recent scares about swine flu and bird flu
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A dramatic experiment

2010-05-27T10:51:00Z

I once conducted a dramatic experiment for a BBC TV programme on chemistry
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Chemistry is hard

2010-04-28T10:45:00Z

They say bright students today don't read chemistry at university because it is seen as a 'hard' subject. And there are fears over job prospects
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Sporting technology

2010-03-31T09:21:00Z

Equipment technology plays a major role in modern sport
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'Hello, my URL is...'

2010-02-26T12:13:00Z

At a party a few years back, instead of nametags the guests wore stickers that said 'hello, my URL is...
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A fiddle and a fraud

2010-01-28T15:07:00Z

Chemistry, I fear, started as a fiddle and a fraud
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The level of disorder

2010-01-06T12:31:00Z

Dramatised by Alan Lightman, the second law of thermodynamics incorporates the theory of entropy