All Columns articles – Page 76
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Opinion
The scientific wrinkles of facial rejuvenation
Could red light and green tea really give 'facial rejuvenation'? Philip Ball looks at the intriguing science behind this new claim
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Editorial: Accomplishing the impossible
Gunnar von Heijne of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences didn't mince his words when he announced the 2009 winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry
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Letters: October 2009
We feel obliged to respond to Prof Morel-Desrosiers’ criticisms (Chemistry World, August 2009, p36) of an earlier article highlighting a paper of ours (Chemistry World, May 2009, p5). This paper (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 3129) describes the formation, in an aqueous mixture, of unusual clam-like species in ...
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Heavy drinking
Alcohol makes us lose balance, but heavy water has the opposite effect. Could a 'heavy' gin and tonic get us drunk but keep us upright?
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Editorial: Food, glorious food
Love it or hate it (who could!) most of us are obsessed with it: we talk about it, we cook it, we like to enjoy it with friends.
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Finding new ways to feed the world
Decades of underinvestment in agricultural research have taken their toll but now is the time to bring in young scientists to find new ways to feed the world, says Ian Crute
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Reliable reactions
Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favourite reactions
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Hunger for h-index
Philip Ball rakes through the findings of new research into the h-index and unearths some top tips for citation-hungry researchers
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OpinionGadolins's condenser
Chemistry is often compared to cookery, and the pages of a typical cookbook read like the pages of the wonderful compendia Organic- and Inorganic Syntheses
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Opinion
The power of salinity
Philip Ball looks at a new device that creates energy from salinity differences between fresh and sea water