Chemistry World February 2010

February 2010

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February 2010

News and analysis

04 January 2010

A burning disappointment or the best that could have been hoped for?

07 January 2010

Scientists accuse the journal Science of failings in its peer review system as claims in a recent paper prompt harsh criticism from chemists

Plans for assessing research impact take more hits

12 January 2010

Report urges research into safety of nanomaterials and criticises food industry for lack of transparency

12 January 2010

EU Council asks whether current legislation adequately assesses risks from exposure to multiple chemicals from different sources

06 January 2010

A libel lawsuit has succeeded in silencing a Danish radiologist who has questioned the safety of a drug

21 December 2009

French universities have been given an early Christmas present of extra funding to boost their competitiveness

14 January 2010

Research and university funding in Japan appears safe after recent threatened cuts, but some larger programmes still face sharp cutbacks

23 December 2009

Universities lose another �135 million for 2009/10 academic year, bring the total cuts to �518 million

15 January 2010

China called on to ensure researchers' scientific integrity after UK-based journal is forced to retract dozens of Chinese papers with falsified data

21 January 2010

With oil prices rising, the chemical industry is looking for alternative feedstocks, could biosuccinc acid be the answer?

11 January 2010

US Environmental Protection Agency proposal to ensure chemical firms have cash to clean up abandoned facilities should they go bankrupt

11 January 2010

German conglomerate Evonik refocuses operations on its chemical business to push its position in the speciality chemicals arena

08 January 2010

TVs backlit by LEDs have caused the first price rise for trimethylgallium in industry players' memories

Industry news, February 2010

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Chemical science

21 December 2009

A small molecule motor that can walk in a straight line has been made UK scientists

11 January 2010

Dutch scientists have designed a molecular motor that can be locked using an acid and unlocked using a base

07 January 2010

The self-assembly of huge molybdenum wheels relies on the spontaneous formation of an temporary internal template

15 January 2010

A team of researchers in the Netherlands have devised a trap that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air

15 January 2010

A basic quantum computer has successfully calculated hydrogen's molecular energy

07 January 2010

Two-faced catalyst to upgrade crude bio-oil into useful fuel

06 January 2010

The way enzyme catalysts bind molecules to speed up their reactions is not as simple as once thought, say chemists from the UK and Spain

10 January 2010

Breakdown products of an antibiotic can reverse resistance to the compound, possibly explaining why sensitive and resistant organisms can co-exist

17 December 2009

Yttrium-based catalyst accelerate the transformation of both enantiomers in a racemic mixture to yield two distinct enantiopure products

19 January 2010

A cyclic diazo compound can attach to the phenol ring of tyrosine under mild conditions providing a new route to modify proteins

18 January 2010

Distorted indolynes reveal new selectivity rules

14 January 2010

New high throughput screening technique generates behavioural fingerprints based on the responses of fish larvae to potential drugs

14 January 2010

New research suggests ancient Egyptians could have deliberately used lead-based cosmetics to help prevent eye infections

13 January 2010

Secondary cancer could be prevented by removing residual cells in the blood

19 January 2010

DNA-based electrochemical sensors allow simple quantitative monitoring of autoimmune-diseases

11 January 2010

A drug-delivery system that tracks the fate of drugs has been developed by scientists in Israel

12 January 2010

Chemists discover two isomers with identical symmetry but different properties

26 January 2010

Nazario Mart�n talks about C60, the energy crisis and chemistry in Spain.

Features

Insecticides, pathogens, stress? Michael Gross reports on possible explanations for the mysterious vanishing of honeybee colonies

Simon Hadlington previews the novel materials coming soon to a dental surgery near you

While Canada may win medals when it hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics, when it comes to innovation the nation is still finding its feet. Helen Carmichael reports

More than 90 years on, recently found bodies of 250 soldiers who died during the Battle of Fromelles in the first world war need identifying. Richard Corfield investigates

Opinion

From looking at the cover you'd be excused for thinking we were talking about the atrocious weather

Copenhagen raises problems but does not address solutions, says James Barber

Philip Ball warms up the subject of snowflake structure