All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 81
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ResearchBubble wrap could send lab costs packing
Potential bubbles up across wide range of uses as storage and test vessels, especially for poor countries
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PodcastBisphenol A
The science is far from settled, but this week’s compound – bisphenol A – is facing bans across the world
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Business
Albemarle buys into lithium with Rockwood merger
$6.2 billion deal capitalises on battery market growth
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OpinionThe creative stimulus
Innovative thinking may be difficult to turn on at will, but there are many ways to prepare for inspiration, says Mark Peplow
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ResearchPolymer changes colour in the heat of the moment
Stabilising thermochromic polymers with peptides significantly increases their responsiveness
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NewsAustralia scraps its carbon tax
The country is unlikely to meet its climate change targets unless some form of carbon pricing is introduced, campaigners claim
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ResearchAaron Wheeler: Algae-on-a-chip
Aaron Wheeler talks to Harriet Brewerton about bringing the energy and microfluidics communities together
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NewsSpending on UK science and engineering continues to fall
Science campaign groups worry that the country’s research base is slowly being run down
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ResearchCoffee cup confusion
Scientists call for better labelling after research highlights inconsistencies in the chemical composition of a cup of coffee
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ResearchMolecular computer calculates Ebola diagnosis
A prototype device displays a fluorescent ‘E’ in the presence of DNA found in Ebola virus
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ResearchLinguistic statistics enable synthetic prophetics
A metric more commonly used by search engines to analyse language can now power organic chemistry retrosyntheses
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PodcastTributyltin
Helen Scales investigates tributyltin, banned from use as anti-fouling paint for causing ‘imposex’ in marine life
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Research‘Greener’ blue fireworks safer and less toxic
Environmentally friendly pyrotechnic cuts out the perchlorates by replacing them with copper iodide
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ResearchClose encounters of the fatty acid kind
Technique for identifying microbes analyses samples from deep-sea missions to ready it for testing samples beyond Earth
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News
Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access
Chemical Science will follow gold open access model from January 2015 and waive author fees for two years
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ResearchMolecular clocks may probe fundamental laws
Clocks based on the simplest molecule could weigh in on proton’s mass