All Columns articles – Page 91
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Opinion
Editorial: Chemistry and climate change
The UK government has long seen itself as a world leader in tackling climate change
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Opinion
Letters: March 2007
From Clive Delmonte Sir John O’Reilly’s comment on peer review covers many pertinent points, but I feel there is a further crucial aspect to consider (Chemistry World, February 2007, p36). The accepted paradigms in science are that non-experts defer to the opinion of experts, while the experts ...
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The beauty of biomimicry
Understanding why nature's materials are so smart could be the first step to educating our own dumb polymers, argues Philip Ball
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Opinion
Mergers: a cost-benefit analysis
Do the benefits of pharmaceutical company mergers really outweigh the costs, asks Derek Lowe
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Letters: February 2007
From Peter Swindells I must disagree with my former colleague Roger Lintonbon that marine organisms can provide a sink for increasing levels of carbon dioxide (Chemistry World, January 2007, p34). Increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide does not lead to increased phytoplankton growth because it is not carbon ...
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Science's secret recipe
Derek Lowe wonders whether the secret recipe for scientific breakthroughs can be taught – and how much indigestion that recipe would cause in the boardroom
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Opinion
The tyranny of peer review
A less conservative approach would foster high-risk, high-return research, argues Sir John O'Reilly
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Opinion
Life's proton shepherds
Philip Ball uncovers how life shepherds protons around the cell with breathtaking ingenuity
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OpinionEditorial: Time to collaborate
Collaborate or die. That's the message of a series of reports from the independent thinktank Demos
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Opinion
Dragon sausages
The recent threat of trading standards action against Welsh sausage maker Black Mountains Smokery has been the subject of much press interest here in the UK
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Opinion
Letters: January 2007
From Richard Schmidt Horst Hippler asks why most natural amino acids are l and most natural sugars d (Chemistry World, October 2006, p22). The answer to this question might already have been answered: selection for these enantiomers has been driven by a fundamental property of interfacial (or vicinal) water. Philippa ...
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Opinion
Learning from pharma failures
Derek Lowe looks at the recent failure of Pfizer's cholesterol drug, torcetrapib, and asks what it means for the future of pharmaceutical research
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Editorial: Reach out
It's been a long time coming, but the European Reach legislation has finally been settled, and should come into force progressively from June 2007