All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 156
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Feature
Chancing upon chemical wonders
Serendipity has played a big part in many of chemistry's major discoveries, from electrically conducting polymers to mauve dye, as Philip Ball finds out.
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Careers
When money and lives are on the line
Davina Stevenson enjoys a career where people's lives and vast sums of money are at stake, reports Yfke Hager.
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OpinionSimon Campbell: looking back
Simon Campbell reflects on the Royal Society of Chemistry's achievements during his presidency.
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Business
Business roundup: June 2006
Leading lab suppliers merge Analytical instrument firm Thermo Electron and chemical manufacturer Fisher Scientific have agreed a merger deal, aiming to become ’the leading provider of laboratory products and services in the high-growth life, laboratory and health sciences industry’. Thermo, the smaller of the two US companies, will acquire ...
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News
Electric shock for controlled release
US researchers have improved the method for controlled release of biomolecules using gold electrodes.
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News
Detecting brain damage before it happens
New NMR technique could detect brain damage early enough to provide treatment for stroke victims.
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News
Brazil and UK team up
Brazil is 'ready and mature' to join the international science arena, according to the Brazilian science minister
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Budget shortfall threatens FP7
EU research investment from 2007 to 2013 will fall ?20 billion short of previous agreements.
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Back in time for CW reporter
Familiar face returns Robert Hooke's long-lost notes to the Royal Society in London
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News
CNTs provide pores for thought
Membranes containing pores made of carbon nanotubes could improve the efficiency of industrial processes such as desalination.
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Precious platinum photographs
A photograph printed in platinum and then modified with the gum bichromate process, has sold for nearly $3 million at Sotheby's.
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News
Biochemists reveal hidden drug effects
Canadian researchers have identified unexpected drug activities by probing biochemical pathways inside living cells.
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Buckyballs worth their weight in gold
Move over carbon, a team of US chemists and physicists has uncovered evidence for the existence of hollow buckyball-like cages made of gold.
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Switching off polymerisation in the dark
With summer on the way, polymer science is about to get a boost following news that sunlight can kick-start polymerisation.
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News
15 May 2006: Sussex reprieve raises intervention issue
Plans to close Sussex chemistry department scrapped, new department created.
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News
Selective DNA crystals
A US molecular biologist has developed a molecular sieve using a DNA crystal with nanoscale channels.