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Chemistry World January 27, 2015 Philip Ball |
The spirit of the matter De diversis artibus, a treatise written in the 12th century by a German Benedictine monk named Theophilus, is a remarkable chemical recipe book. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Column: The crucible Did you hear about the McDonald's 'Shrekgate' fiasco? Colorful characters from the Shrek movies adorned drinking glasses being sold in the burger chain's US branches, but sadly the images had been painted with cadmium pigments. |
Chemistry World September 27, 2012 Philip Ball |
Blues standard The identification of a new inorganic blue pigment in 2009 looked promising for artists. Chemists at Oregon State University, US, found that manganese ions produce an intense blue colour, with the prized 'reddish' shade of ultramarine, when they occupy a trigonal bipyramidal site in metal oxides. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2015 Paul Brack |
Egyptian blue: more than just a color The blue pigment was first used by Egyptian artist 2600 BC. Today it has possible uses in security inks or for biomedical imaging. |
Chemistry World June 2006 Philip Ball |
Chancing Upon Chemical Wonders Serendipity has played a big part in many of chemistry's major discoveries, from electrically conducting polymers to mauve dye. Here the author shows how anyone can make a mistake, but it takes a special sort of person to draw gold from the dross. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2015 Paul Brack |
Refreshing Van Gogh's faded flowers Conservators at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands are working with scientists at AkzoNobel to reverse the effects of time, and reveal Van Gogh's paintings as they appeared when he first painted them. |
Chemistry World September 7, 2011 Ned Stafford |
Analytical Techniques Employed in Art Forgery Case The trial of four people accused of running one of the biggest art forgery rings in post-war Germany has begun, with prosecutors expected to rely heavily on science-based testimony to make their case. |
Chemistry World February 21, 2013 Jon Cartwright |
Synthetic ultramarine's recipe revealed Camille Pissarro's The Cote des Boeufs, Claude Monet's Gare Saint-Lazare and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Les Parapluies all have one chemical constituent in common: synthetic ultramarine. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Van Gogh's Sunflowers may be wilting in the sun His famed series of Sunflowers paintings may themselves be fading as an international group of scientists has found evidence that a yellow pigment Van Gogh used is changing chemically under sunlight. |
Chemistry World April 5, 2013 Laura Howes |
More clues to Maya blue The early Maya chemists managed to make pigments that are incredibly stable. The color has lasted longer than the civilization and today's modern chemists have been trying to work out why. |
Chemistry World June 26, 2014 Philip Ball |
How the Pelican got its hue Pelican books were notable for that shade of blue veering towards turquoise, which chemists will recognize instantly as a copper pigment of some kind. |
Chemistry World July 1, 2014 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Chemistry and art We often write about art-related chemistry, so this issue gives us an opportunity to analyze some of these stories in a bit more depth. |
Chemistry World September 25, 2013 |
Coloring in the dinosaur book Chemists' best known contributions to palaeontology are probably radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis. But they now face a bigger challenge that has traditionally fallen into the hands of artists: adding color to the ancient world. |
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 February 15, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Raman reveals Renoir's true colours Scientists have used Raman spectroscopy to show the original colors of a Renoir painting. By identifying a red dye that had been degraded by light they were able to digitally restore a faded background to its former glory. |
Chemistry World September 4, 2012 Josh Howgego |
Helping hand for Van Gogh conservators Art conservators have received a helping hand from chemists in dealing with a mysterious grey crust appearing on a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. |
Chemistry World December 11, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2015 Innovations in chemistry this year include development of an Ebola vaccine, prize winning antimalarial drug research, and discovery of microstructures in bird feathers. |
Chemistry World December 2006 Philip Ball |
Opinion: The Crucible Being the most applied of the fundamental sciences, chemistry has always had a commercial aspect, which means that its knowledge carries a premium and has sometimes been jealously protected. |
Smithsonian January 2007 Arthur Lubow |
Americans in Paris In the late 19th century, the City of Light beckoned Whistler, Sargent, Cassatt and other young artists. As a new exhibition makes clear, what they experienced would transform American art. |
AskMen.com June 25, 2003 William Sutton |
How To: Become An Art Connoisseur A handy little guide to painting, from the Renaissance to the Postmodern Age |
Chemistry World October 29, 2013 Tim Wogan |
Mercury's dark influence on art European researchers used density functional theory and other theoretical techniques to calculate how mercury might end up on the surface of degraded paint. |
AskMen.com July 2, 2003 William Sutton |
How To: Become An Art Connoisseur - Part II Find out who's responsible for defacing the Mona Lisa, who was seeing spots, who liked canned soup a little too much, and more. |
Chemistry World September 30, 2015 Wei-lun Toh |
A veneer of Vermeer The woman taken in adultery was thought to have been painted by Johann Vermeer before scientific testing revealed it as a forgery. |
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 February 13, 2007 Henry Nicholls |
Raphael Revealed by Raman Spectroscopy Forensic and chemical scrutiny of flecks of paint from an unattributed painting lends weight to the idea it was a mock-up for one of Raphael's most famous Renaissance creations. |
Chemistry World June 30, 2011 Mike Brown |
Copper signals a colourful past Trace elements found in over 100 million-year-old fossil samples have helped to uncover the colourful past of some prehistoric species, according to an international collaboration of scientists. |
Chemistry World March 21, 2014 Philip Ball |
Open exposure Chemistry World's science communication competition this year had the theme of openness. |
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 September 15, 2009 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
Renaissance artworks analysed Researchers have combined two ion-beam analysis techniques to obtain more detailed information about the composition of paints used in Renaissance works of art. |
Chemistry World January 2008 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible Does chemical space limit a chemists' creativity? |
Chemistry World September 2011 |
Column: The crucible In the art world, chemistry continues to be a rich stimulus to the imagination, says Philip Ball |
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. |
Salon.com November 28, 2000 Colin Stewart |
The art of innovation What Silicon Valley is trying to do now, Cezanne and Picasso achieved decades ago... |
Chemistry World April 25, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Illuminates Medieval Art Using infrared spectroscopy researchers discovered that the painter of this manuscript had an idiosyncratic style using pigment binders normally associated with frescoes. |
Chemistry World July 19, 2012 Laura Howes |
Redox chemistry behind dragonfly romance Ryo Futahashi at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, has now shown that that color change in dragonflies is down to simple reduction chemistry. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
Chemistry World October 24, 2012 |
Delving deeper in the Hall of the Kings A portable and non-invasive technique to study and characterize pigments in ancient architecture has been developed by scientists in Spain. |
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. |
Searcher September 2004 Dave Mattison |
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1 Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Here are links to some of the best Web sites. |
Chemistry World August 21, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Why Use Lead in Paint? Mattel, the world's biggest toy maker, has recalled millions of toys that were coated with lead paint. Lead's poisonous properties have been known for thousands of years, so why was lead ever added to paint, and why is lead paint still being made? |
Salon.com October 12, 2000 Ray Sawhill |
Art for politics' sake A critic of the NEA and Harvard talks about the narrow-minded, shock-obsessed contemporary art scene... |
Chemistry World March 2010 |
Painting the town green As new environmental legislation alters the allowed constituents of paint and varnishes, Sarah Houlton reports on how paint manufacturers are tweaking the contents of their tins |
Wired April 2005 Jeff Howe |
Paint by Numbers How a tech whiz kid launched the Artist Pension Trust, a pension fund for artists. |
Chemistry World May 18, 2006 Michael Gross |
Precious Platinum Photographs According to a chemist and photography expert, a 1904 image of a moonrise over a lake, printed in platinum and then modified with the gum bichromate process, has sold for nearly $3 million at Sotheby's, setting a new price record for any art photograph. |
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. |
Managed Care May 2001 Michael S. Victoroff |
Medicine's No Place For 'Artistic' Sensibility At one time, I thought I understood how medicine could be an art. However, after hearing "art" invoked too often as an excuse for error, I wonder if we should reconsider the whole proposition... |
Chemistry World June 22, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Raman identifies South American sculpture pigments Researchers have used Raman spectroscopy to investigate dark pigments in a set of religious wooden sculptures from a 17th century site in Paraguay. |
AskMen.com Stephanie Eldred |
Fine Living: Young Artists To Invest In Art can be one of the most enjoyable ways to invest your money. Here are some ground rules for art investment and artists to look out for. |
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. |
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. |