All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 208
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Opinion
Editorial: In praise of risky science
Blue sky research is essential but how do we ensure it gets funding?
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News
A drop in the ocean
With all that extra atmospheric CO2 being soaked up by the sea, the Royal Society has embarked on a study to find out what is currently known about the possible effects of a consequent drop in pH on marine biosystems.
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Feature
Scoping for doping
Following the Athens Olympics, Henry Nicholls finds out if chemists are beginning to close on the athletes still determined to use performance-enhancing drugs?
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Feature
Digging up evidence of metal pollution
Katharine Sanderson finds out how the truth about human influence on the environment has been dug up from the depths of a peat bog.
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News
Dental x-rays reveal mummies' diets
Analysis of tooth cementum gives insight into ancient lives.
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News
Crystal engineering networks
The RSC has launched a new website for crystal engineers that will provide a central base for researchers worldwide and give them access to an array of services.
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News
RNA enters the construction trade
Scientists believe that nanoscale devices may be created on large RNA arrays.
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News
Combinatorial inking
Devices made from films printed with ink-jet technology have been improved thanks to research undertaken in the Netherlands.
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News
Crystal clear
UK scientists are using computational and NMR methods to predict three-dimensional crystalline structures.
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News
Chromium not so therapeutic?
Supplements containing chromodulin may form carcinogens in the body.
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News
It's time to meet the chemists on the Muppet show tonight
Anyone who has ever had a disastrous day in the lab, set fire to the bench, accidentally sniffed too hard over a fuming conical flask, you are now in good company.
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Opinion
Chemical origins
I never cease to marvel at the number of eminent people in virtually every walk of life who started out as chemists.
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News
New light on ion channels
By using artificial ion channels based on gramicidin, a bacterial toxin, scientists from Canada and Germany are quite literally illuminating nerve cell processes.
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News
Illuminating changes
Piersandro Pallavicini and colleagues at the University of Pavia, Italy, have developed a system for fluorescence signalling within a pH range rather than at a specific pH value.
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Feature
A centre of excellence
The Irish government has highlighted biotechnology as key to creating an innovation and knowledge-based economy. Mark Whitfield reports.