All Columns articles – Page 65
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Opinion
Compounds in the dark
Derek Lowe discusses the compounds you can buy but won't see anywhere in the literature
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Opinion
Weissenberg's Camera
In so many societies, bread is the stuff of life the cornerstone of existence
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Opinion
Letters: October 2011
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has recently announced worrying new policies, which many scientists believe will ’sound the death knell for fundamental scientific research in the UK’. One of the first two to be arbitrarily targeted with reduced funding is synthetic organic chemistry, a subject that is ...
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Opinion
Common sense and safety
You have to make space for good sense when thinking about safety, argues Derek Lowe
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Opinion
Salt, science, salad and art
Were you aware of Salt Awareness week? Me neither, admits Philip Ball
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Opinion
Letters: September 2011
In his Last retort article on chemical words (Chemistry World, June 2011, p72), David Jones comments that the chemical name of DDT is the only one he knows of which fits perfectly into a poem. Paul Ehrlich’s anti-syphilis drug Salvarsan has also been set to poetry. The following limerick ...
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Opinion
Art in science
In the art world, chemistry continues to be a rich stimulus to the imagination, says Philip Ball
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Opinion
'Pay for delay'
Derek Lowe considers an increasingly popular business strategy in the drug industry, the much discussed 'pay for delay' deal