All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 187
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14 July 2005: The brains of tomorrow
Drugs that enhance cognition and new treatments for addiction could be with us in less than twenty years, according to a UK government-commissioned report.
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14 July 2005: Road kill assists pollutant monitoring
An animal-friendly scheme for monitoring the spread of toxic brominated fire retardants in the environment relies on the analysis of mammalian hair rather than post mortem tissue.
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13 July 2005: Chemical technique separates the sheep from the goats
A protein biosensor for discriminating between meat juices from the flesh of different animals has been developed by Swedish scientists.
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12 July 2005: Opportunities for chemists worldwide
Tremendous opportunity awaits chemists over the next 10 years, predicts Bill Carroll, president of the American Chemistry Society (ACS).
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12 July 2005: Lo-tech beats hi-tech in hydrogen storage
Canadian and German researchers have discovered that a relatively lo-tech material - graphite - might help solve the hi-tech problem of hydrogen storage.
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11 July 2005: Lighting up time for lead
A chemosensor that selectively lights up when it complexes lead is being developed by Korean chemists.
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11 July 2005: Water pollution the natural way
Environmentalists have confirmed high levels of toxic hexavalent chromium in the source of Santa Cruz County's drinking water, echoing the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster.
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8 July 2005: EU pollution register on its way
The European Union has found that signing environmental treaties is one thing; verifying compliance is quite another.
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8 July 2005: PDT wants to be a millionaire
British celebrities have joined forces to help raise £100 million for research into photodynamic therapy (PDT).
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Learn chemistry, fight malaria
Chemists at British universities are getting children interested in chemistry by asking them to help develop a treatment for malaria.
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6 July 2005: Male dominance under the armpits
Women can tell the dominance of a prospective partner just by sniffing his body odour, suggest researchers.
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6 July 2005: Mass spec ensures crime doesn't pay
Heroin-contaminated banknotes can be identified quickly and cleanly using tandem mass spectrometry, report chemists at the University of Bristol, UK.
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6 July 2005: Bioremediation mechanism discovered
Researchers further the understanding of bacterial clean-up of nuclear waste
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5 July 2005: Catalyst gets the best of both worlds
A catalyst that is soluble at high temperatures and solid at room temperature has been developed, incorporating both efficiency and recyclability.
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5 July 2005: Peptides redesigned for drug development
The exchange of just a few amino acids, chosen using a novel algorithm, can create unusually stable proteins suitable for pharmaceutical applications, report UK researchers.
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4 July 2005: Controlling conductivity in doped lithium nitrides
It is now possible to control substitution of transition metals in lithium nitride and the level of lithium ion vacancies within the doped structure, report UK chemists.
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4 July 2005: Chemists send organic particles to print
US chemists have developed a lithography process for generating organic particles of any size and shape, and produced some of the smallest ever drug delivery particles.
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Saving a steam ship
Maria Burke discovers the chemical voyage being taken to rescue a once great ship and the state of the art home that will help preserve it
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The modus operandi of a forensic scientist
Jim Fraser has moved from police forensic work to academia. He talks to Bea Perks about the differences between analytical chemistry and forensic science and his plans for UK courses
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Reaping rewards from discoveries
Patents can protect your invention, generate income and be a mine of information for research. Bob Pidgeon explains the process and its advantages