March 2011
Vol 48, No 2. Selected articles and reviews available online to all. Full issue available online to subscribers.
EiC Readership Survey 2011
Column
The future of science
Pfizer, funding cuts, tuition fees, social mobility and teaching time. What's going on?
The ASE at Reading
Laura Howes and David Sait select some highlights from the 2011 ASE conference in Reading
ASE Outdoor Science report
ASE launches its outdoor science report
Café ASE
The Association for Science Education held its inaugural Café ASE discussion
Gender bias still exists
Boys twice as likely as girls to aspire to work in science, RSC poll shows
Successes for RSC spectroscopy
Record numbers of students took part in Royal Society of Chemistry's Spectroscopy in a Suitcase events in 2010
Atomic weights change to ranges
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry have published a new table of atomic weights
Visualising climate change
The Royal Society of Chemistry has launched a new resource to help students and teachers understand the underlying science of climate change
In brief
Items: Various short items
Chemistry trails
Peter Borrows takes us on another excursion into local chemistry. In this issue: strike a light
Soundbite molecules - ginger
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives. In this issue: ginger
Web watch
Tony Tooth looks at some websites that may be of interest to chemistry teachers. In this issue: animations, organic chemistry and chemistry networks
Letters
Letters
Education in Chemistry Letters & Corrigenda, March 2011. (This page is only available online)
Exhibition Chemistry
The bizarre oscillating redox reaction between mercury and iron
Demonstrations to capture the student's imagination by Adrian Guy of Blundell's School. In this issue: The bizarre oscillating redox reaction between mercury and iron
The Elements
The Elements
John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: Cobalt: Vitamin B12, Blue Glass and Invisible Ink
Features
Giving fossil fuels the chop
Axe Valley Biodiesel - a case study on partnership between school, university and business
Greener chlorine
Chlorine is becoming greener; not in the colour, of course, but in the environmental impact of its manufacture
Four Curie centennial elements
The four Curie elements provide us with an interesting tour of the bottom of the periodic table for the International Year of Chemistry
Radium - a key element in early cancer treatment
An early example of how blue skies research by Pierre and Marie Curie led to the treatment of previously incurable cancers
Distillates
The trouble with mercury
Researchers in the US have used laboratory simulations to reveal the two-faced nature of microbes
Infrared breath test
A new type of spectroscopy
Hives no longer buzz
There are growing concerns that colony collapse disorder (CCD), which is ravaging honeybee populations, could be due partly to pesticide use.
Spinning up water beams
Researchers in Israel have found a way to separate water molecules that differ only in how their hydrogen nuclei are spinning
X-raying a DVD
Little is known about the detailed structural changes that take place when data are stored and retrieved
Reviews
Chemistry captured
Peter Hollamby and Peter Edwards
Making chemistry relevant: strategies for including all students in a learner-sensitive classroom environment
Sharmistha Basu-Dutt (ed)
Michael Faraday: A very short introduction
Frank A J L James
Inorganic experiments
J Derek Woollins
Selected problems in physical chemistry
Predrag-Peter Ilich
Roger Frost's organic chemistry
Roger Frost
Science: the definitive guide
Piers Bizony (This review is only available online)
Young scientist journeys
Paul Soderberg and Christina Astin (eds) (This review is only available online)
Endpoint
The teaching-research link
Rob Jackson has the last word
Infochem
