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Chemistry World May 15, 2015 |
All set for chemistry Chemistry sets through the years have both weathered and reflected many changes in science and society, as Philip Ball discovers |
Chemistry World December 2007 Henry Nicholls |
The Chemistry Set Generation Thinking about buying a chemistry set for someone this Christmas? A nostalgic look at an inspirational toy that could be on the verge of a comeback |
Chemistry World May 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Bench Monkey One has to wonder if Pauling, Sacks and Woodward would have ended up like they did if it were not for the very early hands-on experience they got with chemistry. Today's chemistry sets may be safer, but they're also a lot more boring. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm. |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
Chemistry World April 2008 Peter Wothers |
The Big Experiment The lure of the large-scale chemistry experiment. |
National Defense November 2006 Harold Kennedy |
Army Lab Channels Expertise to Non-Traditional Areas When the United States invaded Iraq, the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center began tackling a host of problems that were far removed from traditional chemical or biological defense, such as roadside bombs. |
Chemistry World September 24, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Plants and microorganisms are the original synthetic chemists Greg Challis is a professor of chemical biology at the University of Warwick in the UK. Research in the Challis group encompasses the discovery, biosynthesis, bioengineering and mechanism of action of bioactive natural products. |
Chemistry World December 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Surfing Web2O The rapid evolution of the world wide web is creating fresh opportunities - and challenges - for chemistry. |
National Defense June 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Growing Public Interest In Genetic Science Sparks Some Bio-Security Concerns A growing movement of hobbyists who are carrying out biology experiments in garages, basements and community labs has drawn some interest from the FBI. |
Chemistry World December 2007 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: The Gift of Science A weekend trip to your local toy shop may reveal a vast array of choices for the budding chemist. |
U.S. CPSC July 20, 2007 |
New Mexico Company Fined, Ordered To Stop Selling Illegal Fireworks Components In the aftermath of the Fourth of July holiday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing success in its fireworks enforcement program aimed at reducing deaths and injuries from illegal fireworks. |
Chemistry World October 2010 |
A renaissance in school chemistry John Holman, former director of the UK's National Science Learning Centre, is optimistic about the current state of chemistry education. But important caveats remain |
Reactive Reports Issue 45 |
Star Picks Chemistry Web sites: Chemists Celebrate Earth Day: Resources... Doing Chemistry... Chemistry Question... |
Inc. September 2008 Douglas Kahn |
How I Did It: Douglas Kahn, Ahura Scientific Ahura Scientific's founders were four research scientists and engineers who met at a small company and later worked together. |
Chemistry World December 9, 2015 Philip Ball |
MEL Chemistry sets It seems far more likely that a child's interest will be sustained by a monthly arrival of entirely new kits, than by a single big box full of a bewildering array of chemicals. |
Chemistry World November 5, 2015 Simon Cotton |
Chemistry at home This book is highly recommended, not least to teachers, and is an antidote to smear stories in the media. |
Chemistry World October 24, 2011 Rebecca Trager |
US Universities' Lab Safety Under New Scrutiny US universities are under pressure to significantly step up safety at chemistry labs, following new findings and recommendations from the Chemical Safety Board. |
Chemistry World December 17, 2010 |
Lights, camera, action An interview with chemist Martyn Poliakoff, who is research professor of chemistry at the University of Nottingham in the UK. His main research interest is the application of supercritical fluids with a focus on green and sustainable chemistry. He is one of the |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Robert Gutnikoff |
Lab on the Move When the high school classroom setting is lacking, enter the mobile lab from the University of Texas -- Pan American, in Edinburg, funded with HHMI grants in 2004 and 2008. |
Salon.com December 18, 2001 Stephanie Zacharek |
"Uncle Tungsten" by Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks recalls his childhood romance with chemistry in a book so delightful that even the scientifically illiterate will fall for it, too... |
Chemistry World July 23, 2012 Andrea Sella |
Chattaway's spatula Frederick Chattaway British chemist (1860-1944), was a careful and painstaking explorer of the chemical world. He studied some of the most dangerous compounds known, and was prepared to drop academic security for something more interesting. |
Information Today May 5, 2011 Robert E. Buntrock |
SciPlanner: Latest Addition to the CAS Suite of Programs In over a century of existence, Chemical Abstract Service has become the premier source of chemical information. |
Chemistry World February 26, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
Dangerous delivery problems dog chemical transport in China A lethal accident caused by the leak of a laboratory reagent being delivered by untrained couriers in an inappropriate vehicle has once again highlighted the difficulty of transporting small quantities of chemicals in China. |
Salon.com July 30, 2001 Jim Fisher |
Poison Valley Is workers' health the price we pay for high-tech progress? First of two parts... |
Chemistry World August 7, 2014 Emma Stoye |
UK plans stricter controls on poisons and explosives The UK government plans to bring in new laws that will tighten regulations around selling chemicals classed as 'poisons' or 'explosives precursors' to the general public. |
Salon.com July 31, 2001 Jim Fisher |
Poison Valley (Part 2) What new cocktails of toxic chemicals are brewing in the high-tech industry's "clean rooms" -- and will we ever know what harm they're causing? |
Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Eugene Gerden |
Russia pays high scientific price over Ukraine The annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia and the subsequent tensions over Ukraine has seen the US Department of Energy impose a ban on scientists from Russia working in its physics and chemistry laboratories. |
Science News November 6, 2004 Janet Raloff |
Pesticide Disposal Goes Green A chemist and his colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) have been developing catalysts that might safely degrade dangerous stores of pesticides so that they pose less of a hazard to people and farm animals. |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible. |
Chemistry World December 9, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
EPA tweaks hazardous waste rules for academic labs US chemistry laboratories have been freed from regulations on handling hazardous waste that lumped them under the same rules as industrial facilities. |
Wired June 2006 |
DIY Science It's still possible to do simple experiments in a home lab. Here's a range, from a basic chemistry lesson to classic mischief-making. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2007 Svetla Baykoucheva |
A New Era in Chemical Information: PubChem, DiscoveryGate, and Chemistry Central How the emergence of PubChem, DiscoveryGate and Chemistry Central are changing the field of chemical information. |
U.S. CPSC June 27, 2002 |
Six Seattle Men Indicted For Manufacturing and Distributing Illegal Fireworks The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms announced today that six people from the Seattle area have been indicted on charges arising from investigations into the illegal manufacture and sale of fireworks in the Northwest. |
Chemistry World May 2012 |
Help or harm? Malcolm Dando asks whether we are sufficiently aware of the potential for chemistry to be misused and what may result if we are not |
Popular Mechanics June 11, 2009 Allie Haake |
Inside Amateur Science: The Best in Out-of-Lab Research We asked the entrepreneur and science writer, Shawn Carlson to name some of the top amateur scientists and programs in the country. |
Chemistry World February 21, 2014 |
Chemists on a mission Chemists can, and do, find solutions to humanitarian challenges -- hunger, poverty, pollution, disease -- sometimes using off-the-shelf chemistry that has not been considered for humanitarian issues, or by developing new chemistry. |
Chemistry World May 2011 |
Wealth of opportunity Chemists in developing countries face unique challenges. But as Mike Brown discovers, for those willing to take them on, the benefits can be enormous |
Chemistry World December 17, 2012 Patrick Walter |
RSC acquires rights to Merck Index The Royal Society of Chemistry has acquired the rights to the 'bible' of chemistry, the Merck Index, familiar around the world to medicinal chemists and drug discovery scientists. |
Chemistry World December 14, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
US urged to rethink chemistry graduate education US chemistry graduate education needs an overhaul to address a possible glut of chemistry PhDs and other obstacles, according to a new report released by the American Chemical Society. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2015 Mark Peplow |
Getting to know you The Royal Society of Chemistry has been working on the Public attitudes to chemistry study with leading social research company TNS BMRB. |
Wired August 2006 |
Rants + Raves Backlash when taking sides on the intelligent design issue... Continental divide on the topic of superman in the comics... Chemical reactions produce nostalgia for some... Photography suffers from crowdsourcing... Free HDTV... etc. |
Chemistry World October 30, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Plastic labware contaminant risk Chemicals leaching from plastic lab equipment could be compromising the accuracy of biological studies, warn Canadian researchers. |
Chemistry World August 13, 2015 |
Exploiting the data mine Chemists must embrace open data to allow us to collectively get the best out of the masses of new knowledge we unearth, reports Clare Sansom |
Chemistry World June 13, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
Olympic chemical restrictions worries industry The Chinese government's drive to restrict the movement and manufacture of chemicals ahead of the Beijing Olympics could hit the country's chemical industry, analysts have warned. |
Chemistry World September 14, 2012 Vibhuti Patel |
The road less travelled Professor Jayne Garno says people typically associate the synthesis of new molecules with chemistry, but it is also interesting to study how molecules bind to each other and how you can control surface binding. |
Chemistry World May 20, 2014 Andrea Sella |
Stock's valve It is a belated tribute to Alfred Stock that in 2013, the United Nations Environment Program at last agreed in the Minamata Convention, to phase out almost all uses of mercury. |
Chemistry World June 2011 |
A chemist's defense Reinforcing and not correcting the fears of a risk-averse public is no way to build constructive working relationships, writes Hal Sosabowski |
Chemistry World August 2, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry Cafer Yavuz is a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. His groups design and make new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to offer sustainable solutions for energy and environmental issues. |