All Columns articles – Page 74

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-02-26T10:39:32Z

    Richard Catlow, former director of research at the Royal Institution, tells us why it's important to remember the key role the RI has played throughout the history of science

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Vernier scale

    2010-02-26T10:39:00Z

    Sooner or later, it is the fate of every scholar to be accused of pedantry

  • Opinion

    Superatom Musings

    2010-02-26T10:39:00Z

    Superatoms reinforce the notion that chemistry is more about electrons than elements, says Philip Ball

  • Opinion

    Seemed like a good idea

    2010-02-26T10:39:00Z

    Derek Lowe takes a tour of the 'instrument graveyard'

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Second-hand smoke

    2010-02-26T10:22:00Z

    Carcinogens in cigarette smoke hang around indoors like a bad smell

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2010-01-28T15:07:05Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    A fiddle and a fraud

    2010-01-28T15:07:00Z

    Chemistry, I fear, started as a fiddle and a fraud

  • Opinion

    Letters: February 2010

    2010-01-28T15:06:00Z

    Source: © BETTMANN/CORBIS C P Snow - author, physicist, diplomat C P Snow, the subject of Mathew Waugh’s ’Last retort’ (Chemistry World, December 2009, p88), knew and greatly admired J Desmond Bernal. Snow’s first novel The Search (1934) included a character modelled on Bernal and tells the ...

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2010-01-28T13:45:42Z

    Palau'amine

  • Opinion

    Snowflake Symmetry

    2010-01-28T13:45:00Z

    Philip Ball warms up the subject of snowflake structure

  • Opinion

    Papers vs patents

    2010-01-28T13:45:00Z

    Derek Lowe wonders whether peer-reviewed papers or patents are more reliable

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-01-28T13:34:48Z

    Copenhagen raises problems but does not address solutions, says James Barber

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Petri dish

    2010-01-28T13:34:00Z

    When I was about 16, I came across a peculiar novel in my father's study

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Canadian chemistry

    2010-01-28T13:24:00Z

    From looking at the cover you'd be excused for thinking we were talking about the atrocious weather

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2010-01-06T12:31:05Z

    10 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    The level of disorder

    2010-01-06T12:31:00Z

    Dramatised by Alan Lightman, the second law of thermodynamics incorporates the theory of entropy

  • Opinion

    Letters: January 2010

    2010-01-06T12:31:00Z

    I do not recognise the picture of dug discovery at the ’coal-face’ painted by Clare Sansom and her sources in the article Molecules made to measure (Chemistry World, November 2009, p50) I worked at Roche UK (Roche Research Centre, Welwyn Garden City, Herts) as a young medicinal chemist in the ...

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2010-01-06T11:06:12Z

    Cephalostatin 1

  • Opinion

    Column: Undercover Academic

    2010-01-06T11:06:12Z

    Science for society

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2010-01-06T11:06:09Z

    Regulators struggle with nanotechnology. It's time for more self-regulation, say Marion Palmer and Matthew Felwick