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Silver soils

Silver soils

Nanosilver is filtering into the environment in ever-increasing quantities. But is it the nano or the silver component we should be worrying about, asks Hayley Birch


Damage limitation?

Damage limitation?

Emma Davies investigates attempts to stem the flow of potentially harmful fluorinated chemicals into both our environment and our bloodstreams


Keeping the tap on

Keeping the tap on

James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth


The future of cool

The future of cool

Magnetocaloric materials reveal their magnetic charm to Andrew Turley


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Opinions

Editorial

Editorial: The energy conundrum

Switching on the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All


The crucible

Column: The crucible

To understand the chemical choreography of the cell, we must acknowledge the bustling biomolecular ballroom in which it takes place, says Philip Ball


Totally Synthetic

Column: Totally Synthetic

Asteriscunolide D


In the pipeline

Column: In the pipeline

Derek Lowe wonders what the lab lingua franca might be in the years to come


Comment

Profiting from privatisation

The private sector offers significant benefits to public sector labs hampered by bureaucracy and financial constraints, argues Quentin Maxwell-Jackson


Comment

Navigating the stormy seas of pharma

Manoj Mehrotra discusses the rapid rise of outsourcing strategies in research, development and manufacturing


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News

Grants

NERC asks institutes to weed out poor grants

03 February 2012

Research council plans to improve grant success rates by getting universities to screen out 'uncompetitive' proposals


Spying

Whistleblowers accuse FDA of spying, persecution

03 February 2012

US FDA employees sue agency, saying they were subjected to secret surveillance for expressing safety concerns about medical devices


Trogia mushroom

Toxic mushroom behind Chinese deaths unmasked

03 February 2012

The killer chemicals that have claimed hundreds of lives in China have been identified in a new species of fungi


Woman holding NMR sample

Ultrafast NMR shows the way

02 February 2012

Scientists working in Israel and Spain have used two-dimensional NMR to monitor a reaction in real time


Sodertalje R&D

AstraZeneca to cut 7300 more jobs

02 February 2012

The cost cutting trend is set to continue as big pharma reels from patent expiries


Chemistry graduates

UK chemistry student numbers hold steady

02 February 2012

Chemistry degrees predicted to buck the trend of a 9% drop in applications to UK universities


A microwave oven

Magical microwaves

02 February 2012

When a reaction speeds up in a microwave, is it down to the heat or the microwaves?


World's toughest material

The world's strongest fibres

01 February 2012

A polymer fibre that combines carbon nanotubes and reduced graphene oxide is stronger than spider silk and Kevlar


Biofuels

Two become one for bio-oil upgrade

01 February 2012

A zeolite-metal catalyst combination will make transport fuels from biomass a more realistic prospect


The Commercial Chemist

The Commercial Chemist

01 February 2012

Chemistry World gets down to business with our twice-weekly roundup of money and molecules


Rickets

Pesticides linked to vitamin D deficiency

31 January 2012

Banned organochlorine pesticides such as DDT could be causing chronic illnesses


Nicolas Cage

Molecular dynamics to combat chemical terrorism

31 January 2012

A computer programme to find a pathway to decontaminate VX, a toxic nerve agent that featured in the Nicolas Cage film The Rock


Neurodegeneration

Iron accumulation linked to neurodegenerative diseases

30 January 2012

New discovery suggests iron chelation could treat diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's


Universities

Settlement ups UK universities' dependency on fees

30 January 2012

Grant letter holds research funding steady while student numbers are set to drop next year


Quadruple bond

Calculations reveal carbon-carbon quadruple bond

29 January 2012

High bonding order possible in main group and may be responsible for the ability to isolate molecular species


State of the union

Obama calls for renewed focus on manufacturing

27 January 2012

Although chemical trade groups support the President's emphasis on manufacturing and energy, they caution against overregulation


A big fish chasing a little fish

Illumina fends off Roche hostile bid

27 January 2012

Roche aims to expand personalised medicine diagnostics by acquiring the gene sequencing leader


The Commercial Chemist

The Commercial Chemist

27 January 2012

Chemistry World gets down to business with our twice-weekly roundup of money and molecules


Graphene oxide

Leaky graphene oxide lets water pour through

26 January 2012

Graphene oxide film allows water through but not helium, opening up possibilities for separation technologies


Magnetic surfactant

The world's first magnetic soap

26 January 2012

Iron has been incorporated into a surfactant to produce a liquid that responds to an external magnetic field


Graphene oxide

Conjuring graphene oxide from thin air

25 January 2012

US chemists have turned carbon dioxide into graphene oxide


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