All articles by Tom Westgate
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News
Raman imaging gives new hope for cancer diagnosis
Combining two Raman imaging techniques has allowed disease detection to a depth of 50mm in tissue for the first time
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Careers
The Educated Chemist: Europe-wide mentoring scheme
Training and funding is available to chemists and related scientists who want to encourage future generations to follow in their footsteps.
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News
Research audit shows UK chemistry in good shape
UK chemistry has received a general thumbs-up from the nation's massive 2008 research assessment exercise
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News
Gallium and uranium join forces
First ever uranium-gallium bond may shed light on the chemistry of nuclear waste separation
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News
Raman reveals DNA in action
Signal-boosting silver nanoparticles help Raman to 'see' strands of DNA hybridising
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News
Speedy spectrometer tracks shape-shifting molecules
New microwave instrument captures rearranging isomers
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Feature
Raman reinvented
Raman spectroscopy is no longer an insensitive technique. Tom Westgate finds out how this advancing technology offers new possibilities in biology and security
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News
Molecular traffic spied in nanoscale tube network
Insight into movements could aid catalyst design
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News
Scientists win cash to develop plastic x-ray detectors
Cheap, flexible dosimeters a step closer thanks to funding boost for UK researchers
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News
Proteins protect plants from sunburn
In-built safety switch revealed that could inspire better solar panels
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News
Probe maps individual atoms in semiconductor
Troublesome clusters of dopant atoms 'seen' for the first time
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News
Repairing DNA could let frozen bacteria survive for millennia
Findings suggest the polar ice caps of Mars could harbour life
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News
Unique antibiotic beats superbugs' resistance
Study shows molecule's antibiotic mechanism and paves way for new group of drugs.
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News
Car tyres and brakes produce toxic metal emissions
Your exhaust emissions may be up to standard, but your car's not as green as you think
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News
Striped nanorods feel the strain
Silver-sulfide quantum dots have been lined up in a cadmium-sulfide rod using strain forces
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News
Model enzyme attacks alkyl mercury
US chemists have devised a molecular mimic of an enzyme that destroys toxic alkyl mercury pollutants