All articles by Chemistry World – Page 50
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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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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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Business
Business roundup: May 2006
Budget brings UK science to the fore Science and technology in the UK was prioritised in the country’s annual budget announcement, which also suggests that the way science is funded though the research assessment exercise (RAE) is about to be scrapped. The chancellor said an extra £1 ...
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Opinion
Letters: May 2006
From Michael Archer In response to points raised in the news item entitled Australian chemistry department under threat (Chemistry World online, 23 March 2006; p10), I strenuously deny that any ’budget bungle’ has occurred, as the academic staff union emotively and incorrectly claims. Rather, the restructuring of the school ...
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Europe strives to allay GM fears
European plans for 'improving scientific consistency and transparency' on GM crops has prompted a guarded response.
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Update: Europe tightens fluorinated gas restrictions
A furious row has stalled plans for further restrictions on use of fluorinated gases in the European Union.
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Knowledge transfer partnership awards
Analytical chemists, counterfeit checkers, and a pharmaceutical scientist form an award-winning partnership.
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Digital immigrants seek asylum
The ACS division of chemical information has come a step closer to joining the digital nation by preparing a podcast of one of its sessions at its national meeting in Atlanta
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Archaeological chemists settle trophy-head debate
Strontium isotope analysis and modern day guinea pigs point to violent past for ancient disfigured skulls discovered in Peru
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Opinion
Letters: April 2006
From Brian Whitefield I sympathise with Ronald Dell over his problem with the names of pharmaceuticals (Chemistry World, March 2006, p32). Some 50 years ago, when National Service temporarily converted me from organic chemist to nurse, the nature of preparations could be easily determined from their Latinate names or, in ...
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Organic chemists develop molecular calculator
Israeli organic chemists have created a calculator the size of a single molecule.