All articles by Richard Van Noorden
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News
Web chemistry progresses InChI by InChI
Collaboration provides tools to help chemists tag their own compounds online
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Review
The science of fiction
Different engines - how science drives fiction and fiction drives science
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News
New science minister in UK reshuffle
Drayson takes science brief while climate and energy combine in one department
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Feature
Microwaving myths
Microwaves are moving beyond organic synthesis, but there is still some confusion about what they do to molecules. Richard Van Noorden reports
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News
Oxyfuel carbon capture trial launched
Prototype power plant also world's first to capture and store its carbon dioxide
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Feature
Rain on demand
Can a bit of simple chemistry command the clouds? Richard Van Noorden reports
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News
Atomic scale microscopy goes commercial
Instrument manufacturers bring state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopes to the market
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Feature
What David did next
After seven years as the UK government's chief scientific adviser, chemist David King is still fighting to keep climate change at the top of the political agenda.
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News
UK's chem-bio interface gets mixed report
Research councils don't adequately support interdisciplinary research, scientists say