All Columns articles – Page 70
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Opinion
Letters: December 2010
I was interested to read Harry Kroto’s account of graphite losing its lubricating properties in a vacuum (Chemistry World, November 2010, p37). When I was working for Morganite Carbon in the early 1960s I saw a demonstration of an electric motor running inside a bell jar. When pressure was ...
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OpinionWe need more surprises
Who's that asleep at the back? Don't be too quick to blame yourself when tedious talks and soporific seminars fail to inspire, says Derek Lowe
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Opinion
Financially motivated sustainability
Philip Ball looks at the financial motivation needed to advance sustainable technology
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Opinion
Letters: November 2010
Clifford Jones proposes that the world’s trees, taken collectively, absorb large amounts of atmospheric CO2 (Chemistry World, October 2010, p34). How can this be true? Any climax ecology, whether forest, peatbog, savannah, or ocean will, if it is dimensionally constant, contain the same amount of ageing, dead and decaying organic ...
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Opinion
Editorial: Graphene Nobel
There's great news for UK research as four of this year's Nobel prize winners are working at UK institutions
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Opinion
Untriseptium
Would element 137 really spell the end of the periodic table? Philip Ball examines the evidence
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Opinion
Bridgman's seal
The most reductive of literary critics are wont to say that there are only seven kinds of stories
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OpinionThe 'blockbuster mentality’
Should companies focus on big markets and the blockbuster dream? The more modern approaches are not without risks, says Derek Lowe
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Opinion
Letters: October 2010
Caroline Toland’s reply to the career-change question posed by an academic (Chemistry World, September 2010, p72) is perfectly sound advice but there are some issues that need addressing. The first question an employer will ask is why it has taken 10 years to discover he/she doesn’t enjoy academic life? He ...