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Chemistry World February 2009 Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible The flowery language of fragrance chemistry doesn't distract the author from the sharp scent of olfactory understanding |
Chemistry World August 2009 Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible Zinc nanoparticles appear to have the ability to make odorants smell stronger and could a give a valuable insight into how olfaction works |
Chemistry World February 11, 2015 Derek Lowe |
The smell of success The sheer variety of smells that we chemists are exposed to is surely one driver of our passion for the subject. |
Chemistry World August 12, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Knock-out theory puts new spin on general anesthesia Consciousness may be extinguished through mysterious quantum biological effects that cause subtle changes in the electronic state of proteins, say researchers. |
Chemistry World October 25, 2006 Jessica Ebert |
The Smell of Filthy Lucre The musty smell that most people associate with old pennies and other objects made of iron, copper, or brass is really a human body odour, not a metal vapour, report researchers. |
Chemistry World March 17, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Electronic 'nose' could shed light on sense of smell Korean researchers have combined human smell receptors with nanotechnology to create a new kind of 'bio-electronic nose' |
Chemistry World September 2010 |
Repulsive chemistry Simon Hadlington discovers why some people get bitten by more insects than others, and how new chemical deterrents are helping fight them off |
Reactive Reports September 2007 David Bradley |
Plain or Vanilla It turns out that a single gene is responsible for changing the way our noses perceive the smell of androstenone, a derivative of testosterone, and a potent ingredient of male body odor. |
Chemistry World July 2006 John Bonner |
Insect Detectives Chemists and biologists are harnessing the powerful sense of smell that insects possess to devise applications from detecting rotten tomatoes to controlling one of the deadliest diseases in Africa. |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Robin Marantz Henig |
Avant Garde Scientist The science of smell has intrigued Leslie Vosshall for years. In her office at Rockefeller, where she is head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, she hopes scientists will be able to do for smell what is possible for vision and sound: provide an objective measurement. |
Chemistry World June 10, 2011 Laura Howes |
Quantum tunnelling creates the 'wrong' molecule Protons takes a quantum leap in carbene reaction to give chemists a surprise |
Chemistry World February 2009 Emma Davie |
The Sweet Scent of Success Some of the world's most celebrated perfume molecules. |
Chemistry World October 22, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Isotope effect produces new type of chemical bond New work by researchers shows how substituting isotopes can result in fundamental changes in the nature of chemical bonding. |
Chemistry World July 15, 2014 Philip Ball |
Molecular clocks may probe fundamental laws A new proposal for using molecules rather than atoms for ultra-precise measurement of frequencies could help to probe whether there are fundamental laws of physics beyond the ones we know already. |
Chemistry World December 20, 2006 Bea Perks |
A Breath of Fresh Water Some semi-aquatic animals can smell their surroundings under water. |
Reactive Reports Issue 32 David Bradley |
Odor sniffers Tracking down smells that even the most sensitive human nose cannot pick up is now possible, thanks to an inexpensive sensor devised by scientists at the University of Bonn. |
Chemistry World June 20, 2012 Hamish Kidd |
Not to be sniffed at Not to be Sniffed at: Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Odors by Ohloff and others begins with an introduction to the history of odors and the molecular basis of olfaction, including structure -- odor relationships. |
Chemistry World March 6, 2011 Mike Brown |
Molecules that walk, hop and jump 'Two legged' molecules walk, hop and fly across a receptor surface, according to researchers in the Netherlands and Ireland. The findings could help us understand how viruses and bacteria interact with cell membranes, they say. |
Wired Erin Biba |
Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures. |
Chemistry World October 13, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Following Electrons' Chemical Reaction Quickstep The oscillating electronic states of molecules nearby and passing through a conical intersection can now be probed directly. |
Chemistry World October 14, 2014 James Urquhart |
Good vibrations for electron microscopy The physical and chemical properties of materials will be better understood thanks to researchers who added vibrational spectroscopy to the electron microscope at a spatial resolution of just a few nanometers. |
Chemistry World November 16, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Tantalizing Boost for Hydrogen Storage US chemists have announced the discovery of a new hydrogen-storage material, which they say stores large amounts of the gas at room temperature. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2014 Harriet Brewerton |
Printed sensors kick up a stink Scientists in Canada have used an inkjet-printer to create sensors that give off a smell when a target biomolecule is present. |
Chemistry World September 17, 2013 Laura Howes |
Cork taint shuts down your nose 2,4,6-Trichloroanisole is often the compound held responsible for the musty, unpleasant smell of 'corked' wine. |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 |
Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 |
Navigating chemical space How big is chemistry? I don't mean how important is it, or how many people do it, but rather, how many molecules are there that we could make? |
Chemistry World December 23, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Opening the gate for molecular electronics Chemists in Korea and the US have shown that the current running through a transistor made of a single molecule can be regulated by tweaking its molecular orbital energies. |
Technology Research News March 23, 2005 |
Nanowires track molecular activity Researchers from Harvard University have found a way to use transistors made from silicon nanowires to gain information about how small molecules bind to proteins. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Rachel Wood |
Decoding interstellar carbon The detection of molecules such as fullerenes -- molecules composed entirely of carbon, including the spherical C 60 -- has revealed a more complicated picture of carbon in space. |
Chemistry World March 31, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Giving molecules a stretch A simple way to stretch small molecules and measure the forces at play has been developed by researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World July 13, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Getting a look at water wires Indian chemists have trapped tiny strands of water inside peptide nanotubes - allowing the researchers to take a direct look at how small amounts of water behave in a confined environment. |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Nicole Kresge |
Use It or Lose It HHMI investigator Catherine Dulac of Harvard University has uncovered a small molecule that plays a big role in the process of tuning olfactory neurons to the environment. |
Chemistry World November 5, 2007 Ned Stafford |
Joining up Nanocircuits A team of scientists have covalently bonded strings of porphyrin molecules on a gold surface -- a step forward in the quest to develop nano-electronics. |
Chemistry World July 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey Synthesizing molecules that force atoms into bizarre contortionist acts is the only way to learn. |
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley |
Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2011 Sarah Houlton |
Fooling mosquito CO2 sensors to tackle malaria Research by scientists at the University of California Riverside, US, could pave the way for novel insect repellents to tackle the spread of deadly tropical diseases. |
Chemistry World July 29, 2010 Carol Stanier |
Methane all lined up Swiss researchers have found that the way methane molecules vibrate when they hit a nickel surface can have a huge effect on their reactivity. |
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 |
The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter. |
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The Grooming Mistake That Turns Every Woman Off A date who smells is a woman's No. 1 pet peeve. |
Chemistry World March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain. |
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 |
Low-Pressure Material Holds Hydrogen One key to using hydrogen as a fuel is finding practical ways to store it. Researchers have discovered a kinetic trapping effect that allows hydrogen to be adsorbed. |
Science News April 10, 2004 |
Sense of Smell A website that aims to spotlight the importance of smell in human psychology. |
Chemistry World May 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Molecular biology, physics, materials science, physiology, even pure mathematics is a neighbor, and these neighbors are usually reached through a zone of interdisciplinary stuff that's rather hard to define. So who counts as a chemist? |