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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 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. |
Chemistry World December 3, 2012 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
The gift of science Nobel prize winner Robert Curl recalls: 'When I was nine years old, my parents gave me a chemistry set. Within a week, I had decided to become a chemist.' A familiar story? I'm sure it is. |
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. |
Wired June 2006 Steve Silberman |
Don't Try This at Home Garage chemistry used to be a rite of passage for geeky kids. But in their search for terrorist cells and meth labs, authorities are making a federal case out of do-it-yourself science. |
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. |
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... |
Reactive Reports Issue 45 |
Star Picks Chemistry Web sites: Chemists Celebrate Earth Day: Resources... Doing Chemistry... Chemistry Question... |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 John Nicholson |
The matter factory: a history of the chemistry laboratory There has been no comprehensive history of the chemistry laboratory, an omission put right in The matter factory by the distinguished historian, Peter Morris. |
Chemistry World December 2011 Nicole Moreau |
Chemistry - Our Life, Our Future A look back on a year of chemistry. |
Chemistry World February 16, 2011 Laura Howes |
International Year of Chemistry launches across the world Over 1000 people from more than 60 countries helped to launch the International Year of Chemistry at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris, France. |
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. |
Chemistry World August 8, 2013 Victoria Druce |
Chemistry: the impure science Chemistry: the impure science by Bensaude-Vincent and Simon, delves into the past to assert the foundations of a modern chemistry, with a concluding chapter that might propel the subject into an ethically sound and influential future. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2008 |
Chemical Education in Need of Reform China's university chemistry departments are struggling to attract students despite the rapid expansion of the country's higher education system. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 |
What is chemistry? This book is designed to tell the average person all about chemistry, and in a way they can understand. |
Chemistry World December 2011 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: The End of a Good Start Chemistry can and should be celebrated every day. |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
A new year and a new dawn As the International Year of Chemistry drew to a close last year, we were delighted to see the future of chemistry in the UK being bolstered with two universities planning to reopen their chemistry departments |
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 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 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 |
Chemistry World September 2009 |
Column: Undercover academic Chemistry has so much to offer but will likely never receive credit, mainly because its contributions are in the disputed territories between disciplines. I find that a little sad. |
Chemistry World October 30, 2009 Ned Stafford |
Celebrating chemistry There's a big birthday celebration happening in Marburg, Germany, today, attended by about 800 chemists, to commemorate the birth of chemistry as an academic subject. |
Chemistry World November 2009 |
Column: Undercover academic Good laboratory techniques are key skills for a chemistry graduate. All chemists need an appropriate level and range of practical skills. |
Chemistry World December 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Fiction failure Rare as it is for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, it's rarer still to find a story with a character who happens to be a chemist, but is also simply a well-rounded human being. |
Chemistry World January 2009 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Sustainable connection The interface between chemistry and engineering is more important than ever. |
Chemistry World November 2011 Graeme Armstrong |
Good Chemistry We must improve the chemistry between industry and society. |
Chemistry World September 1, 2013 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Chemistry - The next generation What does the future hold for the chemists of tomorrow, those clutching new qualifications and those still coming through the ranks in school? Can chemistry attract a complete cross-section of 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. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Andrea Sella |
Turing's machine Alan Turing, perhaps not often remembered as a chemist, stands out for providing the starting point for computational chemistry and for presenting a chemical hypothesis for the spontaneous appearance of structure. |
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. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2014 |
The colorful science Chemists and artists have been inspiring each other to more colorful heights for centuries. Philip Ball traces the development of paints and pigments. |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Dick Wife An interview with the chemical IT scientist and co-founder of SORD, a scientific publishing company that seeks to solve the problem of organizing the myriad of undocumented chemistry and the chaotic mess of the commercial database. |
Chemistry World May 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Keeping it Green Some chemistry enthusiastically labeled as green may be nothing of the kind, warn researchers who worry that mediocre -- if well-meaning -- science is damaging their subject. |
Chemistry World January 21, 2010 Ned Stafford |
Chemist named new CNRS head Chemical engineer Alain Fuchs, head of the French chemistry research institute Chimie ParisTech, has been appointed the new president of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France's massive government funded research organisation. |
Reactive Reports Issue 66 David Bradley |
Nuclear Chemist's Love of the Web Benefits Chemists Everywhere Mitch Andre Garcia uses the internet to help the chemistry community. His latest web creation is a ranking tool which allows users to submit research papers of interest and for others to vote on their worthiness or otherwise. |
Chemistry World December 2006 Mark Haw |
Comment: A Tale of Two Disciplines Teaching as well as research can help bridge the no-man's land between chemistry and chemical engineering. |
Chemistry World February 24, 2006 Jon Evans |
Information Free-for-All The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia could become the main source of chemical information in 5-10 years, according to a professional chemist. |
Chemistry World March 2006 |
Letters Chemistry's changing face... Exeter's chemistry closure... DDT ditty... Chlorine in poetry... etc. |
Chemistry World January 7, 2014 Maria Burke |
Scientific data disappearing at alarming rate As individual researchers are not preserving their data for posterity, there is a pressing need for tougher rules on data-sharing in public archives, the team concludes. |
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. |
Chemistry World August 15, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Former Royal Society of Chemistry president dies After retiring from active research, John Mason Ward continued to play an active role in the chemistry community. |
Science News May 22, 2004 |
Home Experiments A chemistry professor offers a Web site for performing home experiments. |
Chemistry World April 17, 2014 Bill Griffith |
Up from generality This book is really an extended essay on inorganic chemistry, concentrating on the period from the mid-20th century to the present and in particular the upsurge -- the so-called 'renaissance' -- proclaimed in the 1950s. |
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 April 8, 2014 Powell & Lancaster |
Strength in numbers Analytical science in all its forms makes an enormous contribution to the bottom line and we need a body of analytical chemists capable of both developing new measurement techniques and of applying those that already exist in new ways. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Patrick Walter |
Two-time chemistry Nobelist Fred Sanger dies Double chemistry Nobel laureate Frederick Sanger died yesterday at the age of 95. The Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, where he spent much of his research career confirmed his death this morning. |
Chemistry World March 3, 2015 Peter Reed |
Important figures of analytical chemistry from Germany in brief biographies: from the middle ages to the twentieth century This book makes a useful addition to the chemical literature and is recommended to chemists and, in particular, historians of chemistry. |
Science News October 27, 2007 |
Science Safari: Chemistry--Weird and Otherwise Visit this computational chemist's blog to learn the who, what, when, where, and why of chemistry. |
Chemistry World January 8, 2015 Derry W Jones |
Great minds: reflections of 111 top scientists This perceptive and enjoyable compendium, though intelligible to non-scientific readers, will appeal especially to professional scientists aware of the characters' achievements. |
Chemistry World November 2007 |
Book Reviews A review of books on: good clinical & laboratory practices, green chemistry, environmental chemistry, organic reactions in water, universal asymmetry, and molecular models for fluids. |