News – Page 660
-
News
EU-wide carbon capture project
A four-year carbon sequestration project backed by 30 European universities and energy companies will test the viability of CO2 capture.
-
News
IgNobel chemists on tour
Chemistry featured highly on the 2006 IgNobel tour of the UK, run as part of National Science Week
-
News
Nanoparticle drug delivery
Biodegradable polymers being developed in Atlanta, US, offer numerous advantages over current drug delivery systems, say researchers.
-
News
Gene therapists swarm round honeycomb lipid
US researchers have synthesised a lipid molecule they say shows real promise in gene therapy.
-
News
Knowledge transfer partnership awards
Analytical chemists, counterfeit checkers, and a pharmaceutical scientist form an award-winning partnership.
-
News
Buckyballs enter the fast lane
A team of US chemists has developed a practical use for buckyballs: as wheels on a nanoscale car
-
News
Funding council powerless to intervene in department closures
Investigations into chemistry cuts at Sussex University have highlighted weaknesses in Hefce's strategic powers, say politicians.
-
News
Digital immigrants seek asylum
The ACS division of chemical information has come a step closer to joining the digital nation by preparing a podcast of one of its sessions at its national meeting in Atlanta
-
News
Explosives go unleaded
Explosives could become safer following the synthesis of lead-free environmentally-friendly primary explosives, by US researchers
-
News
Blast in French university kills professor
An explosion in a French university chemistry department has killed one person and seriously injured another.
-
News
Church music silenced by EU's waste directive
Church organs have come under threat from EU directives aimed at reducing the amount of lead that reaches landfill sites
-
News
Archaeological chemists settle trophy-head debate
Strontium isotope analysis and modern day guinea pigs point to violent past for ancient disfigured skulls discovered in Peru
-
News
Organic chemists develop molecular calculator
Israeli organic chemists have created a calculator the size of a single molecule.
-
News
Boost for chemical innovation
A boost in innovative performance across the UK was promised at yesterday's launch of the Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network.
-
News
Australian chemistry dept under threat
The school of chemistry at the University of New South Wales, Australia, is facing cost-saving job losses.
-
Business
Business roundup: April 2006
Chemicals firms plead guilty to price-fixing conspiracy A total of more than $72 million (?41 million) in fines faces Belgian chemicals company Solvay, and Dutch company Akzo Nobel Chemicals International, following the admission that they participated in international price-fixing cartels in the chemicals industry, the US department of industry has ...
-
News
Good news for the chemical industry
Training programme launched to persuade journos to drop the 'dirty and dangerous' tag often linked to chemicals stories.