June 2008
Black mark for examiners offering simplistic questions
30 June 2008
Questions like "What powers a solar-powered mole-scarer?" do not test students, says Richard Pike
Cells have an appetite for micro-doughnuts
24 June 2008
"Micro-doughnuts" might give scientists a new way to deliver drugs selectively, eliminating nasty side effects of life-saving treatments such as chemotherapy.
Powder power - a simple, efficient route to hydrogen fuel
23 June 2008
Chemists in the US have developed a simple reaction to make ammonia borane - a powder more hydrogen-dense than even liquid hydrogen.
Soho sees a flurry of Snow in June
17 June 2008
Health Secretary Alan Johnson and the RSC commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Dr John Snow
Health Secretary will honour tenacity of cholera pioneer
16 June 2008
A tribute to the pioneering scientist who discovered that water, not air, conveys cholera
Two new RSC journals to launch in 2009
12 June 2008
Integrative Biology and Metallomics will fill the interdisciplinary gaps in the worldwide scientific publishing community
Scientists work to stop chocolate going the way of George Clooney
10 June 2008
Insights into the structure of ageing chocolate might help manufacturers prevent it from going grey
Gas mask inventor Harrison honoured in death by Churchill
10 June 2008
A letter from the then Minister of Munitions to Edward Harrison's widow shows how much the country owes the hero chemist
World media organisations respond to RSC oil claims
09 June 2008
Statistical analysis is needed to correctly predict oil reserves
Times newspaper quotes RSC chief executive on oil
05 June 2008
The Times reports an assertion by RSC chief executive that world oil reserves have been seriously underestimated
