October 2012
Halloween chemical prank condemned by Royal Society of Chemistry
30 October 2012
The RSC today condemned a website that suggested spiking food with methylene blue as a Halloween prank
RSC supports Marblar: crowdsourcing ideas for unused science
30 October 2012
The RSC is sponsoring six challenges on an innovative new platform to find commercial applications for unused scientific discoveries
RSC presents Foreign Secretary William Hague with unique tie-pin made of electronics waste
23 October 2012
RSC Chief Executive Robert Parker presented the gift at the launch of a report on resource scarcity at the British Embassy in Berlin
Bill Bryson Science Communication Prize winners attend Westminster award ceremony
22 October 2012
Four schools are celebrating their awards at a ceremony with Bill Bryson in the House of Commons today.
RSC President receives Irish chemistry honour
18 October 2012
Professor Lesley Yellowlees has been awarded the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland's Annual Award for Chemistry in memory of eminent women chemist Eva Philbin.
RSC brings science to Stormont for the first time
15 October 2012
Scientists and politicians will come together at today's inaugural Science and Stormont event which also sees the launch of a new RSC initiative: 175 Faces of Chemistry.
ChemSpider's Antony Williams honoured for making science easier for scientists
11 October 2012
Dr Antony Williams receives the 2012 Microsoft Research Jim Gray Award.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded for G-protein-coupled receptors
10 October 2012
RSC Immediate Past-President Professor David Phillips comments on this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka.
£200m is a welcome step, but science needs long-term certainty to aid economic recovery
08 October 2012
RSC President Lesley Yellowlees welcomed George Osborne's announcement today of £200m for research but called on the Conservatives to make a long-term commitment to science.
BBC Newsnight team to be sent a working fridge, courtesy of the RSC
04 October 2012
The RSC is calling on the public to let us know if they have a fridge-freezer to send to the BBC to re-attempt the Mpemba Effect experiment that failed on Tuesday's programme.
