All articles by Patrick Walter – Page 5
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Opinion
Store with care
Chemists need to get their own house (or lab cupboard) in order and new electronic inventories are just the ticket
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Opinion
Count your blessings
With major funding cuts averted, UK chemists prepare to take on some of the world’s biggest challenges
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Opinion
Chop and change
The UK research landscape is in a state of flux and decisions made now will dictate its direction for many years
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Opinion
A shot in the arm
Vaccines for diseases that afflict the world’s poorest offer an escape not only from disease but also from poverty
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Opinion
Living on credit
Greece should be wary of short-changing its universities to balance the budget or it could mortgage its future
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News
Poll finds majority of scientists engaging with public
AAAS members taking to social media and blogs to help inform science and technology discourse
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Research
Plastic waste entering world's oceans set to double in 10 years
Model finds 8 million tonnes of plastic rubbish makes its way into seas every year and much of it remains unaccounted
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News
EPSRC head pledges greater dialogue with researchers
UK physical sciences chief Philip Nelson talks exclusively to Chemistry World about his plans, doctoral training and discontent in the community
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Business
Growth slow for European chemicals in 2014
Results for the first half held back by stagnant sales and production dips
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News
Former Royal Society of Chemistry president dies
John Mason Ward, an active member of the chemistry community and power industry chemist, has died aged 92
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News
Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access
Chemical Science will follow gold open access model from January 2015 and waive author fees for two years
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Research
Simple substitution cuts solar cell toxicity
Replacing cadmium chloride with magnesium chloride could reduce the cost and environmental impact of thin film solar cells
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News
World’s scientific advisers plan closer collaboration
Advisers across Europe will form a knowledge-sharing network
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Research
Three glowing mice
People’s exposure to nanoparticles could be tested for with skin biopsies
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Business
Europe's chemical industry faces extinction in 10 years
Chairman of Ineos warns that the sector could go the way of the dinosaur thanks to high energy and feedstock costs