All Columns articles – Page 62

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    Opinion

    Spanish science in crisis?

    2012-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Reducing Spain’s science budget jeopardises decades of Spanish scientific progress says Nazario Martín

  • Opinion

    Bubbleology science

    2012-06-01T00:00:00Z

    And a reason to celebrate

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    Opinion

    Asymmetry

    2012-06-01T00:00:00Z

    In science, not all forms are created equal

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    Opinion

    A dose by any other name

    2012-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Philip Ball has sympathy for those nonplussed by nomenclature

  • Opinion

    Flashback: 1982 – chemical Olympiads

    2012-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The RSC suggested the idea of chemical Olympiads to be organised by RSC local sections

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    Opinion

    Turing’s machine

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Alan Turing, perhaps not often remembered as a chemist, provided the starting point for computational chemistry

  • Opinion

    atrop-Abyssomicin C

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Natural products frequently have hard to pronounce and even harder to spell names, often of little meaning.

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    Opinion

    21st century toxicology

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Thomas Hartung discusses the next generation of toxicity testing and the regulatory science of the future

  • Opinion

    Trade shows

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The sheer size of these things is what amazes me

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    Opinion

    Moral molecules?

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Is there a case for regulating the ‘trust’ hormone?

  • Opinion

    The Iron Lady

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Howard Peters takes a look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, an Oxford chemistry graduate who became the UK’s only female prime minister

  • Opinion

    Breaking the surface?

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Philip Ball is perplexed by the EPSRC’s decision to cut surface science funding

  • Opinion

    Biotech's bravura performer

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Bibiana Campos Seijo talks to scientist, philanthropist and serial entrepreneur Chris Evans

  • Opinion

    Flashback: 2002 – doping discussion

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    British Olympic skier Alain Baxter had his bronze medal taken away after a post-race drug test showed traces of methamphetamine

  • Opinion

    Hopeahainol A and hopeanol

    2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

    This month's synthesis looks somewhat familiar

  • Opinion

    Help or harm?

    2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Are we sufficiently aware of the potential for chemistry to be misused?

  • Opinion

    Scheibel's column

    2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Liquid-liquid extraction attracts a little poetic licence

  • Opinion

    Passion of the chemist

    2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

    It took Derek Lowe a while to find his motivation

  • Opinion

    Letters: May 2012

    2012-04-27T09:12:00Z

    The article ’Making Light Work’ (Chemistry World, April 2012, p52) coincided with an alarming Daily Telegraph article relating the near-catastrophic increase in antibiotic resistance due to misuse by the NHS and in agriculture. It seems that big pharma is no longer interested in infection control for two reasons: Any ...

  • Opinion

    Sensory thinking

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Chemistry could benefit from getting more touchy-feely