RSC - Advancing the Chemical Sciences


Chemistry World

 

April 2003


No 4

Rough diamonds

Diamond fingerprinting techniques should make it easier to enforce new trade controls on diamonds.


Molecular dynamics

Problems cracked

Knowing how and why materials fracture means finding out what's going on at the atomic scale, says Hans-Rainer Trebin.


A safe landing

Innovative chemistry has saved the historic submarine Holland 1 from a slow decay, says Maria Burke.


Plant nutrients

How does your garden grow?

For chemists, gardening is a real busman's holiday, as Nina Morgan discovers.


The DNA story

The discovery of the structure of DNA was reported 50 years ago this month.