All Columns articles – Page 66

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    Editorial: Ig Nobel awards

    2011-10-27T08:33:00Z

    The winners of the Ig Nobel awards were announced on 29 September

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    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2011-10-26T15:15:38Z

    Gelsemoxonine

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    Good news for graphene

    2011-10-26T15:15:00Z

    Political party conferences are not noted for taking much interest in science, says Philip Ball

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    Compounds in the dark

    2011-10-26T15:15:00Z

    Derek Lowe discusses the compounds you can buy but won't see anywhere in the literature

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    Weissenberg's Camera

    2011-10-26T15:15:00Z

    In so many societies, bread is the stuff of life the cornerstone of existence

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    Thinking a lot about hydrogen

    2011-09-29T14:44:00Z

    I've been thinking a lot about hydrogen recently

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    Flashback

    2011-09-29T14:43:59Z

    25 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

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    Letters: October 2011

    2011-09-29T14:43:00Z

    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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    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:20:32Z

    Will filling your car with biofuel ever be sustainable? Matthew Aylott says that new technology is set to make this dream a reality

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    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:19:17Z

    Biofuels are needed more urgently than ever, but issues of land use change and management must be considered first, say Jeremy Woods, Seyed Ali Hosseini and Nilay Shah

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    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:18:01Z

    On their return from Monza, Bibiana Campos Seijo talks to the Williams F1 team about tyre performance, fuel and the chemistry of racing

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    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:14:35Z

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is having to make some tough funding decisions, says David Delpy

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    Editorial: Formula One science ambassadors

    2011-09-29T13:52:00Z

    Here's a headline that really stands out

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    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2011-09-29T13:42:00Z

    Synechoxanthin

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    Van de Graaff generator

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    Transport systems can be great unifiers and bringers of development

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    Common sense and safety

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    You have to make space for good sense when thinking about safety, argues Derek Lowe

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    Salt, science, salad and art

    2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

    Were you aware of Salt Awareness week? Me neither, admits Philip Ball

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    Flashback

    2011-08-30T09:49:29Z

    35 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

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    In hot water

    2011-08-30T09:49:00Z

    Water boils at 100°C, right? Wrong

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    Letters: September 2011

    2011-08-30T09:49:00Z

    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 ...