All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 93
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Feature
Chasing the wave
With the authorities, medics and analytical chemists struggling to break the flow of new legal highs, the bad guys appear to be getting the upper hand. Sarah Houlton reports
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News
Artificial hips glide on graphite
Artificial hips lubricate themselves by grinding up proteins, but are graphite fragments something we want in our bodies?
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US crackdown on mercury pollution
The US Environmental Protection Agency's new rules will limit power plants' emissions of mercury and other toxins
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PodcastHaemoglobin
The compound that brings a distinctive red colour to our bloodstreams - here's Brian Clegg with haemoglobin
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Podcast
January 2012
Chemistry World podcast - January 2012 1:05- Caffeine content of high-street espressos5:08- A zombie reaction rises from the dead7:53- Antony Williams discusses collating chemical data and the ChemSpider database14:57- Crab shell used to create a transparent plastic17:40- A homonuclear diatomic molecule with a permanent dipole21:53- US Army research chemist Jesse ...
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One-pot synthesis creates new anticancer
A rapid, high-yield approach produces indole alkaloid natural product analogues that can interfere with cell division
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Controlling termites with nanoparticles
Silica nanoparticles could help exterminate entire termite colonies
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EU membership holds research promise for Croatia
Joining the EU will offer Croatian researchers access to more funding but they may find it difficult to secure
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Cleaning cadmium from blood
A supermagnetic particle could reduce heavy metal pollution in blood
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UK government proposes science universities
New type of university would receive no public money with funding to come from businesses
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Surfing the plasmonic wave
New technique reveals the electric field created by optical excitation of plasmonic modes
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Blood barrier gel aids medical analysis
A gel to form a permanent barrier between blood components in separation tubes prevents the components mixing again during transportation
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The TNA world that came before the RNA one
Chemists find evidence that a nucleic acid that is simpler than RNA could have been the primordial genetic material
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A question mark over cubic ice's existence
UK scientists suggest that one form of ice crystal thought to arise from supercooled water may have been misidentified
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Nanoear listens in on cellular motoring
Scientists working in Germany have developed a tiny listening device to eavesdrop on the sounds of microscopic objects such as living cells
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NewsWhat does it take to improve laboratory safety?
With criminal charges brought over the death of a UCLA student, US labs are looking at ways to improve safety
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Amino acid residues give away bloodstain's age
Scene of crime scientists might one day be able to use protein fluorescence to determine how old bloodstains are
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Indian science needs to raise its game
Prime minister Manmohan Singh says that the country is falling behind other research competitors such as China