All Columns articles – Page 79

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    Flashback

    2009-04-28T14:32:45Z

    10 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

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    Letters: May 2009

    2009-04-28T11:09:00Z

    Reading The changing shape of chemistry, 1998 to 2008, I am reminded of what never changes (Chemistry World, April 2009, p39). Nowhere is there any apparent attempt to define the purpose, or purposes, of a chemistry BSc. This is not a demonstration of ’academic freedom’, but, rather, of academic licence. ...

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    Making water

    2009-04-28T11:08:00Z

    'How do we make water?'

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    Comment

    2009-04-28T11:04:30Z

    The EPSRC recently announced plans to ban persistently unsuccessful grant applicants for one year. Why did it do this and why are some UK chemists unhappy about it?

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    Opinion

    Gaede's diffusion pump

    2009-04-28T09:50:00Z

    A new generation of faster, stronger and more reliable vacuum pumps

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    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2009-04-28T09:47:04Z

    (+)-11,11'-Dideoxyverticillin A

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    Column: Undercover Academic

    2009-04-28T09:44:50Z

    Seedcorn funding

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    Golden garments

    2009-04-28T09:35:00Z

    Simple nanoscience is bringing the legendary Golden Fleece to life in the form of merino wool dyed with gold. Philip Ball links myth to modern science

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    Prescription unknowns

    2009-04-28T09:33:00Z

    Derek Lowe considers what we think we know about how drugs work once we've taken them

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    Editorial: US science funding boost

    2009-04-28T09:23:00Z

    Is it simply another case of the grass always being greener on the other side?

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    Flashback

    2009-03-31T10:33:51Z

    25 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Letters: April 2009

    2009-03-30T11:50:00Z

    As Matt Brown is a ’freelance science writer based in London,’ it is perhaps not surprising that he missed out on reporting the first new pharmacy degree in the UK for around 30 years - that of the School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia ...

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    Opinion

    Carius tube

    2009-03-30T10:51:00Z

    The Carius tube - still the workhorse of digestion reactions

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    Nobel prize nominations

    2009-03-30T10:50:00Z

    Nobel prize nominations

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    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2009-03-30T09:29:25Z

    Hopeahainol A and Hopeanol

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    Column: Undercover Academic

    2009-03-30T09:29:25Z

    Assessing the RAE

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    Stick to the steps

    2009-03-30T09:29:00Z

    Derek Lowe considers the problems of addressing drug development out of sequence

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    The upsides to amyloid proteins

    2009-03-30T09:29:00Z

    Unwinding protein fibrils could give a glimpse of how peptides survived on early Earth

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    Comment

    2009-03-30T09:27:02Z

    Varied and confusing array of chemistry courses on offer at today's universities.

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    Editorial: Introductions

    2009-03-30T09:12:00Z

    Bibiana Campos-Seijo introduces herself