All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 13
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Opinion
Editorial: Food, glorious food
Love it or hate it (who could!) most of us are obsessed with it: we talk about it, we cook it, we like to enjoy it with friends.
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News
News in brief: October 2009
Electron clouds unveiled For years, undergraduate chemists have been shown pictures depicting the atomic orbitals of atoms as described by the Schrödinger equation. But now, researchers from the Kharkov Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine, have gone one better and managed to directly image the electron density surrounding a ...
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CareersProfile: Fabulous food
Denise Smith heads the food science department at Ohio State University, US. She is thrilled by the large numbers of students switching to food science, as she tells Yfke Hager
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Careers
The insider: Food forensics
When food is contaminated, teams of chemists are at hand to help track down the molecular culprits, reports Sarah Houlton
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Careers
Company Profile: Diet dedication
Mead Johnson has developed special products for children with diet-related problems for over 200 years, as Yfke Hager reports
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Opinion
Finding new ways to feed the world
Decades of underinvestment in agricultural research have taken their toll but now is the time to bring in young scientists to find new ways to feed the world, says Ian Crute
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Opinion
Column: The crucible
Philip Ball rakes through the findings of new research into the h-index and unearths some top tips for citation-hungry researchers
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Opinion
Reliable reactions
Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favourite reactions
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OpinionGadolins's condenser
Chemistry is often compared to cookery, and the pages of a typical cookbook read like the pages of the wonderful compendia Organic- and Inorganic Syntheses
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Careers
Careers clinic: CVs for postdocs
Academic CVs are always lengthy but it's important to know where to put the detail and what to miss out, says Caroline Tolond
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Business
Business roundup: October 2009
Bayer bows to safety concerns One year after an explosion that led to two fatalities, Bayer CropScience is to eliminate 80 per cent of the methyl isocyanate (MIC) stockpile at its Institute, West Virginia site. Bayer will also spend $25 million (£15 million) on further safety improvements at the site ...
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Podcast
October 2009
Chemistry World Podcast - October 200900.11- Introduction 02.02 -Sniffing out the chemical profile of death 04.42 - Are antioxidants always good for you? 07.53 - James Galloway on concerns that humans are upsetting the nitrogen cycle 14.55 - Is nitrous oxide now the biggest threat to the ozone layer? 17.45 ...
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News
Porous networks trap reactive intermediates
Short-lived reaction intermediates observed by x-ray in the pores of crystalline 'coordination networks'
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PodcastGadolinium
Simon Cotton introduces an element that may prove useful in the fridges of the future