All Columns articles – Page 96

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Nuclear futures

    2005-05-26T14:00:00Z

    Nuclear power needs to be among the options considered to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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    Swings and roundabouts

    2005-05-11T23:07:50Z

    Life in a start-up company can be anything but easy, as Lionel Milgrom discovered

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    Flashback

    2005-05-11T10:10:08Z

    May - 45 years ago; 105 years ago; 110 years ago; 175 years ago; 205 years ago

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    Bucket science

    2005-05-11T10:07:00Z

    Lord Kelvin's bucket technique was easily arranged - cloudy skies are the East Midland's forte after all, and I had a bin liner handy - but to no avail.

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    Editorial: European research funding

    2005-05-11T10:04:00Z

    Research funding is essential for Europe to become a key knowledge-based economy

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    Letters: May 2005

    2005-05-10T11:29:00Z

    From Brian Shelley I was very interested to read Philip Ball’s Ten most beautiful experiments in chemistry (Chemistry World, April 2005, p32). I agree that they all have elements of beauty in them. However I would like to suggest an addition to the list: the discovery of the element promethium. ...

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    Chemistry education's plight

    2005-04-29T16:05:36Z

    Chemistry education in Australia is in decline. Bill Price discusses the problems and proposes some solutions

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    Editorial: Working at the interface

    2005-04-18T14:47:46Z

    Interaction between chemists and chemical engineers remains a problem

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    Flashback April 2005

    2005-04-18T14:41:46Z

    April - 75 years ago, 90 years ago, 95 years ago, 100 years ago, 105 years ago

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    The rift between the arts and the sciences

    2005-04-18T14:40:00Z

    It is almost 50 years since C P Snow first identified the rift between the 'two cultures' of the arts and the sciences

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    Innovate and invest

    2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

    UK science minister Lord Sainsbury presents the government's case on science funding

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

    March

  • Opinion

    Remembering Eric Voice

    2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Last September the RSC lost a much-valued member. Eric Voice probably had more intimate knowledge of plutonium than anyone alive in the UK today.

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    Cutting back

    2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

    With the Kyoto protocol in force, we now need to focus on how to reduce emissions further

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    Letters: March 2005

    2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Five years ago, at the Royal Institution launch of Simon Garfield’s book on Perkin’s ’Mauve’, the author told me that he thought Perkin’s grave was no longer at Harrow. I was surprised at that because I had visited it sporadically for over 30 years - partly to see that it ...

  • Opinion

    Your views: March 2005

    2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Which country has the best system for educating professional chemists and why?

  • Opinion

    The nuclear solution

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Tony Ryan argues that nuclear power should be put back on the agenda

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Corporate goodwill

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The pharma industry must maintain its support for the areas affected by the tsunami

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    All substances are poisons

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Deadly poisons and coffee

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    Letters: February 2005

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    rom John Wright