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The name's (quadruple) bond?

13 May 2013 The Crucible

Philip Ball discusses the contentious issue of C2 bonding. Dare we draw four lines?

Quantum leaps of faith

29 April 2013 The Crucible

The path to quantum mechanics becomes smoother if you take a different route, says Philip Ball

What does DNA do?

24 April 2013  Premium contentFeature

The more we learn about DNA, the less we seem to know, as Philip Ball discovers

Clairvoyant chemistry

15 March 2013 The Crucible

Philip Ball discusses spiritualism, science and a most unusual book

Water structure controversy laid to rest?

12 February 2013 Research

A solution to puzzling claims that water arranges itself in rings and chains, rather than the anticipated tetrahedral arrangement, may have been found

A (chemical) potential theory of life's origin

11 February 2013 The Crucible

Philip Ball says we should look beyond the molecules that make us to find the spark of life

Why don't nanobubbles go pop?

8 February 2013 Research

New study claims that nanobubbles' stability is down to supersaturation of the liquid surrounding the bubble with gas

Using used lab equipment

29 January 2013 The Crucible

Philip Ball evaluates the market in second-hand labware

Controversial theory of smell given a boost

28 January 2013 Research

Molecular vibrations may be responsible for our ability to distinguish between different odours, new experiments show

Righting history

9 January 2013 The Crucible

Chemists should learn from the past, says Philip Ball, but they may need a history lesson first

Make or break: the laws of motion

28 November 2012 The Crucible

Molecular machinery involves a delicate interplay of forces, but biology has found the balance, says Philip Ball

Up in the air

23 November 2012  Premium contentFeature

Philip Ball looks at the recent progress in lithium–air battery research - has it stalled?

h is for horoscope?

25 October 2012 The Crucible

Can scientists’ success be reduced to a formula, asks Philip Ball

Blues standard

27 September 2012 The Crucible

Chemists may have finally got the blues, says Philip Ball

Bright idea to probe bond order

13 September 2012 Research

An IBM team has used atomic force microscopy to reveal the lengths and orders of C–C bonds in buckyballs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

The automatic chemist

22 August 2012 The Crucible

Philip Ball considers the creation of a collective chemical brain, and what it might dream up

Getting under water's skin

17 August 2012 Research

Researchers think they might have an answer to why water's surface tension isn't as great as it ought to be

Big troubles over tiny bubbles

9 August 2012  Premium contentFeature

Theory suggests that nanosized bubbles should barely exist at all - but they do

Polymer replacement for the hydration shell

2 August 2012 Research

New work on liquid proteins casts doubt on the on the essentiality of the hydration sphere for protein function

Nullius in verba

18 July 2012 The Crucible

Philip Ball asks how much of the published literature you should believe. Not much, by some accounts

Imaging icons

2 July 2012 The Crucible

Philip Ball celebrates olympicene’s place in the pantheon of chemical imagery

Column: The crucible

23 February 2012 The Crucible

Philip Ball takes a critical look at the science behind an anti-ageing cream and discovers there's some truth in its sugar-coated claims

Column: The crucible

27 January 2012 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

Column: The crucible

22 December 2011 The Crucible

Philip Ball considers some research that's making a meal of science

Column: The crucible

28 November 2011 The Crucible

Philip Ball admires the artistry of contemporary science buildings and a few old masters too
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