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Chemistry World podcast - March 2013
13 March 2013 Podcast | Monthly
Mark Mascal talks about bio-derived chemicals, John Lindon introduces the Phenome Centre and the team cover the latest news
Deadly mushroom chemistry
13 March 2013 Feature
Emma Shiells looks at the difference between tasty paddy straw mushrooms and fatal death caps
Googling for new drug side effects
12 March 2013 Research
An analysis of people's web searches has discovered unknown adverse effects from taking several drugs at once
'Plasmonic smart dust' conjures kinetics clues
12 March 2013 Research
Silica-coated gold nanoparticles enable versatile optical sensing method to track reaction kinetics
Libel reform bill at risk
11 March 2013 News and Analysis
Campaigners fear that appending the bill to efforts to regulate the press will doom reform
Sensationalism in science
11 March 2013 Editorial
How a great documentary turned into sensationalist reporting
Retreating from meetings?
11 March 2013 News and Analysis
In the US, the sequestration might make it harder for government scientists to travel to conferences, the ACS fears
New definition for supramolecular chemistry
8 March 2013 Research
In supramolecular chemistry entropy rules over enthalpy, say Mexican scientists,
High-capacity MOF shows clean fuel promise
8 March 2013 Research
Cars that run on low-pressure natural gas could become a common sight on our roads thanks to a new high-capacity MOF material
The next big thing in mass spectrometry
8 March 2013 Research
18MDa intact virus capsid is the heaviest object to be analysed so far
Battleground develops over antibiotic killing mechanism
8 March 2013 Research
New research suggests traditional mechanisms, rather than reactive oxygen species, are responsible for killing bacteria
Is lead linked to violence?
7 March 2013 Comments
Examining the evidence for the link between lead exposure and violence, Paul Illing finds a cautionary tale
Elusive water dimer detected at last
7 March 2013 Research
Scientists in Russia have observed water dimers in atmospheric conditions for the first time, following 40 years of research
Recycling electronics with dimethyl sulfoxide
7 March 2013 Research
Solvent extraction could be greener than current methods of reclaiming materials from circuit boards
Chemdoodler draws on chemistry
6 March 2013 Jobs Profile (Personal)
Kevin Theisen’s software is used by scientists all over the world. Sarah Houlton learns why he moved from the chemistry programme to chemistry programmer
New antibiotics: what's the hold up?
6 March 2013 In the Pipeline
It’s more a research problem, than a commercial one, says Derek Lowe
Data challenges for UK chemists
6 March 2013 News and Analysis
Academic chemists are being overwhelmed by the amount of information they both produce and feel they ought to be reading, a report claims
How healthy is your breath?
6 March 2013 Research
A baseline measurement of healthy human breath could one day enable the routine diagnosis of disease from a single exhalation
Alcohol dependence pill approved in EU
5 March 2013 Business
Selincro tablets from Lundbeck designed to reduce consumption of alcohol
University to acquire Shell UK R&D site
5 March 2013 Business
Site at Thornton will become a science park under the stewardship of the University of Chester
Blink and you'll miss it
5 March 2013 Research
A new method for single molecule tracking of fluorescent molecules promises a more accurate and efficient approach
Fukushima disaster predicted to raise cancer rates slightly
5 March 2013 News and Analysis
World Health Organization report expects cancer risk to rise marginally, but doesn't put a figure on the number of deaths expected
Green houses
5 March 2013 
Feature
Fiona Case discovers how chemistry can help reduce the energy consumption of our houses
UK funders get tough on research misconduct
4 March 2013 News and Analysis
Research Councils UK will be able to withhold money from universities that fail to take ethical breaches seriously
UK considers patent rule change for trials
4 March 2013 Business
Government to change law that organisations say makes the country less appealing as a location for clinical trials
Co-factoring on a chip makes biocatalysis easy
4 March 2013 Research
A microfluidic device could reduce the cost of using co-factors in enzyme-catalysed redox reactions
Microbial mobilisation may offer arsenic solution
4 March 2013 Research
Natural processes, not human activity, are responsible for the release of sequestered arsenic that kills thousands of people every year in Bangladesh
Polymer production line runs on DNA
3 March 2013 Research
Enzyme-less system can produce a huge library of synthetic polymers that could catalyse chemical reactions or target disease
Dow rapped for $1bn tax scheme
1 March 2013 Business
Judge opines: 'tax law deals in economic realities, not legal abstractions'
Fireproof coatings made from DNA
1 March 2013 Research
Could a next generation of eco-friendly flame-retardant coatings be made from DNA?
The magic of microwaves
28 February 2013 Last Retort
Do the devices just heat cups of tea or is there more to their use in chemistry?
25 years ago: Roald Hoffmann publishes his poetry
28 February 2013 Flashback
The Nobel prize winner shows his artistic side
Does chemical regulation boost innovation?
28 February 2013 Business
Report suggests that supply of innovation responds to extra demand created by new laws
Chemical transport defines ‘Goldilocks’ cell size
28 February 2013 Research
Too big and macromolecules like proteins and DNA have to travel too far, too small and they’re too crowded
Recognising coeliac disease
28 February 2013 Research
An electrochemical immunosensor is a step towards point-of-care disease diagnosis
Talk of a $6.6bn deal for Elan
27 February 2013 Business
Potential offer from Royalty Pharma comes as Elan ponders how to spend its cash from Tysabri rights
Opsins
27 February 2013 Podcast | Compounds
Brian Clegg opens our eyes to the compounds that enable sight
Supercharging methanol for fuel cells
27 February 2013 Research
Ruthenium-based pincer catalyst can extract hydrogen from methanol, making it a better choice to generate clean energy
PharmaSea to scour ocean depths for new drugs
27 February 2013 News and Analysis
Bioprospecting project will investigate marine organisms in the search for new antibiotics and central nervous system therapies
Science community urged to unite on open access
27 February 2013 News and Analysis
While many sticking points remain, these should not be allowed to derail changes to the publication of research in the UK, meeting told
Capturing the potential of carbon dioxide
26 February 2013 Research
A new iron nanoparticle catalyst could turn waste greenhouse gas into useful hydrocarbons
UK top scientist immigration policy under fire
26 February 2013 News and Analysis
A scheme to attract world leaders in science to the UK has seen just 73 visas issued in its first year
Entropy and the second law: interpretation and misss-interpretationsss
26 February 2013 Review
Thermodynamic thoughts
Alfred Werner: the well-coordinated chemist
26 February 2013 Feature
Werner’s careful experiments led to the discovery of what came to be known as coordination bonds
Finding asbestos in soil
25 February 2013 Research
A new soil analysis technique could allow the detection of very low levels of asbestos, which could be harmful to health
Crystals of polystyrene
25 February 2013 Research
Highly ordered materials made by crosslinking are super strong, say chemists, and could find use in engineering applications
Endocrine disrupting chemicals under fire
25 February 2013 News and Analysis
WHO and UNEP warn that common endocrine disrupters could be responsible for the rise in global health problems
University intellectual property: a source of finance and impact
25 February 2013 Review
Profiting from ideas
Electronic tongue develops a taste for brandy
22 February 2013 Research
Applying electronic tongue technology to the brandy industry could change the way the drink is assessed for quality
LED triggers microfluidic mixing
22 February 2013 Research
Light-switching surfactant creates aqueous droplets that mix up oily liquid streams
Time slicing captures molecular birth pictures
22 February 2013 Research
Reaction-timescale x-ray images of I2 formation push instrumental and interpretation boundaries
$595m octreotide deal grabs Roche
21 February 2013 Business
Company will get worldwide rights to oral formulation of growth hormone drug
New publishing models test the water
21 February 2013 News and Analysis
Several new services have launched that deviate from the current publishing models
Copycat flags help aliens avoid mouse immune system
21 February 2013 Research
Synthetic peptide flags can trick the immune system into ignoring therapeutic agents. The peptides emulate protein markers that classify cells as 'self' rather than ‘alien'.
New direction for flu drugs
21 February 2013 Research
Molecules covalently bind to virus protein to stop it escaping the cell, and could sidestep resistance problems
Roy David ‘Gus’ Guthrie AM CChem FRSC (1934–2013)
21 February 2013 News and Analysis
Former Secretary General of the RSC and founding fellow of two Australian universities died on 12 January
Synthetic ultramarine's recipe revealed
21 February 2013 Research
180 years on, chemists unravel the recipe of a prized blue pigment
NO for longevity
21 February 2013 Research
Nitric oxide has been directly linked to extended life in roundworms, but any connection to human biology is unclear
A biomass bonanza
21 February 2013 Feature
Companies have put biofuels on the back burner to aim for higher margin chemicals, as Emma Davies finds out
Green means go for careers in chemistry
20 February 2013 The Insider
Yfke Hager takes a look at the growth in green chemistry jobs and talks to the chemists whose research doesn’t cost the Earth
UK-India projects launched
20 February 2013 News and Analysis
Scholarships and research links announced as part of prime minister's visit to India
Uk37
20 February 2013 Podcast | Compounds
Josh Howgego looks into the past, with help from some alkenones
Ohmic heating for efficient green synthesis
20 February 2013 Research
New method of heating on-water organic reactions uses the direct application of electricity
Raman spectroscopy for bedside cancer diagnosis
20 February 2013 Research
A new way of looking at cancer promises a faster, less invasive diagnosis
Design and applications of single-site heterogeneous catalysts
20 February 2013 Review
The future is green
Merck resolves Vytorin case for $688m
19 February 2013 Business
Investors say the company knew about Enhance trial failure but withheld information
Analysing bacterial metabolites
19 February 2013 Research
The complex chemical interactions between microbes is being studied with a non-destructive mass spectrometry technique that can see where chemicals are moving
Bacteria clean-up after Gulf of Mexico disaster
19 February 2013 News and Analysis
Microbial communities helped to sink Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and might one day be an alternative to toxic dispersants
Insulator pile shows solar potential
19 February 2013 Research
LaVO3/SrTiO3 system promises to bring better electron-hole separation and native electrodes to photovoltaics
Is BPA just an 'innocent bystander'?
17 February 2013 Research
Analysis questions whether studies linking bisphenol A to chronic diseases like diabetes can be trusted
Enzyme nano-parcels sober up drunken mice
17 February 2013 Research
Enzymes for metabolising alcohol are trapped in a polymer shell to hold them together and improve their efficiency
Head of Russian degree-awarding regulator arrested
15 February 2013 News and Analysis
Felix Shamkhalov is charged with money laundering and issuing false dissertations. Thousands of Russian academic degrees may need to be revised
Phenome Centre goes for gold
15 February 2013 Feature
Andy Extance finds out how British researchers are turning Olympic anti-doping facilities into a world-leading facility
BMS sells OTC drugs for $482m
14 February 2013 Business
Bristol-Myers Squibb will offload rights to a range of over-the-counter products to Reckitt Benckiser
Safeguarding science against falsehood demands debate
14 February 2013 Comments
Mathias Brust makes a plea for more debate in the scientific literature
Chemical velcro sticks underwater
14 February 2013 Research
Strong and reversible adhesive harnesses supramolecular chemistry
Drugs to blame for anti-social fish
14 February 2013 Research
Trace amounts of anti-anxiety drugs can alter fishes' behaviour raising concerns about their effects on entire food webs
Toxicologist with pesticides on the brain
13 February 2013 Jobs Profile (Personal)
Vanessa Fitsanakis’ career in toxicology goes all the way back to the farm where she grew up. Helen Carmichael traces her journey from agriculture to academia
Salvarsan
13 February 2013 Podcast | Compounds
Philip Robinson tells us about the first chemotherapeutic drug
Bone-repairing nanoparticles laced with DNA
13 February 2013 Research
Bone growth and repair can be accelerated using an injectable nanoparticle paste functionalised with DNA
Tapping proton power for enantioselective synthesis
13 February 2013 Research
A simple yet selective organocatalyst provides an efficient new way to generate many useful organic molecules
ESRF upgrade gears up for industry
13 February 2013 News and Analysis
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, has outlined the improvements that would make it the most powerful instrument of its kind in the world
Ozone device for food packaging
12 February 2013 Business
Device uses plasma to create ozone inside sealed packaging
Biosynthesis of methylmercury discovered
12 February 2013 Research
Route from inorganic to organic mercury isolated
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
Footfalls to power static nanogenerator
11 February 2013 Research
Simple device can use static electricity generated by walking to light up an array of 600 LEDs
Soft robots take a leap forward
11 February 2013 Research
Pneumatically powered soft robots can now be powered by combustion, making their movements faster
A new system for cancer detection
11 February 2013 Research
A simple drug-based detector could speed up the clinical diagnosis of all kinds of cancer
Biogen buys Tysabri from Elan for $3.25bn
8 February 2013 Business
Elan earns huge cash injection for blockbuster drug
Printing crystalline drugs
8 February 2013 Research
Pharmaceutical co-crystals of carbamazepine have been created using desktop inkjet printer
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
Maternity leave and your rights
7 February 2013 Careers Clinic
Charlotte Ashley-Roberts covers the employments rights of mums (and dads) to be
Small business office chemical industry pawn, watchdog claims
7 February 2013 News and Analysis
The US Small Business Administration’s little-known Office of Advocacy is accused of trying to dilute efforts to regulate certain chemicals
BASF drops GM potato projects
7 February 2013 Business
Move follows transfer of R&D from Europe to US
GSK commits to AllTrials data disclosure
7 February 2013 Business
Company will begin publishing all clinical study reports
Tetris solution to zeolite conundrum
7 February 2013 Research
Modelling structures as simple building blocks helps to explain why so few exist when millions are predicted
Reach reviewed: no change required
6 February 2013 Business
But disproportionate cost of compliance for small and medium size companies should be reduced, European commission says
CFCs
6 February 2013 Podcast | Compounds
Brian Clegg looks at one of the original environmental villains
Royal Institution's chemical heritage for sale
6 February 2013 Comments
If the Royal Institution is to have a future, it cannot be separated from its past, says Mark Peplow
Electricity at your fingertips
6 February 2013 Research
Conducting polymers that could harvest energy from human body heat
Diagnosing bacterial growth
6 February 2013 Research
Scientists have designed a device for the rapid determination of the effect antibiotics on bacteria
German research minister’s doctoral thesis revoked in plagiarism row
6 February 2013 News and Analysis
University of Dusseldorf concludes that Annette Schavan copied large portions of her doctoral dissertation
Science's spiritual side?
6 February 2013 Feature
Some view science and religion as mutually exclusive, but this has not always been the case, as Katharine Sanderson discovers
EU proposes neonicotinoid pesticide ban
5 February 2013 Business
Clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid at centre of debate over declining bee populations
‘Invisible gates’ trap water droplets
5 February 2013 Research
Japanese scientists have created a nanoengineered surface that can separate out droplets based on their size
Sea urchin inspires carbon capture catalyst
5 February 2013 Research
Larvae make use of nickel ions when building up their exoskeletons suggesting a role for the metal in carbon capture
Measuring up
5 February 2013 Feature
In 2013, the Research Excellence Framework begins rating every chemistry department in the UK. Leila Sattary weighs up the evidence
Richard III body found under Leicester car park
4 February 2013 News and Analysis
DNA analysis confirms skeleton is remains of last Plantagenet king
Chemistry World podcast - February 2013
4 February 2013 Podcast | Monthly
Graham Richards discusses crowdsourcing, Eric Wolff talks about ice cores and the team cover the latest chemical news
Enzyme draws nanopore protein sequencing nearer
3 February 2013 Research
Californian team hope changes in current as unfoldase drags proteins through a pore could identify individual amino acids
Zoetis IPO launches at $2.2bn
1 February 2013 Business
Pfizer spin off will be a big player among a relatively small number of public companies focusing on animal heatlh
Horse meat scare offers food for thought
1 February 2013 News and Analysis
Burger safety scandal highlights holes in the UK’s food testing regime
Duplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions
1 February 2013 News and Analysis
Analysis claims that since 1985 major science agencies may have spent $5.1 billion on research that had already received funding
A sustainable future: green chemistry PhDs
31 January 2013 Educated Chemist
Yfke Hager speaks to tomorrow’s chemists being trained in the science of sustainability
Citation cartel uncovered in Bosnian journals
31 January 2013 News and Analysis
Study claims some scientists are behaving unethically to inflate impact factors and boost their careers
DCD in New Zealand milk
31 January 2013 Business
Dicyandiamide poses no food risk but fertiliser companies have suspended sales
Sunscreen patches for wounded skin
31 January 2013 Research
Nanostructured core–shell latex films offer complete UVB protection to wounded skin
Funding council backs doctoral training centres with £350m
31 January 2013 News and Analysis
Money will fund new centres and some existing ones, while others may slowly fade away
Practical guide to intellectual property
31 January 2013 Review
Intellectual property: from creation to commercialisation
Sabic invests $500m in new R&D centres
30 January 2013 Business
Four centres to be created: two in Saudi Arabia, one in India and one in China
Prussian blue
30 January 2013 Podcast | Compounds
Laura Howes looks back to a time when feeling blue was a good thing - and wearing it was 'bling'
Unrest over US gas exports
30 January 2013 Business
Dow says exports will increase cost of gas and decrease price stability
NMR with a light touch
30 January 2013 Research
Scientists in the US are developing a novel NMR method that uses light to pick up the spin of nuclei
People power
30 January 2013 Feature
Harnessing the wisdom - and money - of the public has grown in popularity, Clare Sansom finds
Five green chemical feedstock projects launched
29 January 2013 News and Analysis
New projects will investigate how feedstock chemicals can be produced without fossil fuels
Graphene hits the funding jackpot
29 January 2013 News and Analysis
Consortium seeking European funding to investigate the material wins €1 billion in emerging technologies competition
Using used lab equipment
29 January 2013 The Crucible
Philip Ball evaluates the market in second-hand labware
Paper crane to carbon electrode
29 January 2013 Research
Group use origami to demonstrate their new electrode printing technique
Pesticides can kill frogs in hours
29 January 2013 Research
Typical spraying of fields with commonly used pesticides is enough to cause the death of frogs
30 years ago: The oldest operational Perkin-Elmer spectrophotometer in the UK is found
28 January 2013 Flashback
Firm celebrates silver jubilee with competition
Plan for UK's 'eight great technologies' outlined
28 January 2013 News and Analysis
Government announces where funding will go to enable the country to bridge the technological 'valley of death'
Ominous isotopes
28 January 2013 Last Retort
Heavy elements are one thing, but it is lighter uranium that is the worry
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
Allergan buys MAP for $958m
25 January 2013 Business
Deal strengthens Allergan's position in neurology with Levadex for treating migraine
CSIRO: a translation agency
25 January 2013 The Insider
James Mitchell Crow meets the scientists making a difference at Australia’s national science organisation
Name reactions: how does the label stick?
25 January 2013 In the Pipeline
Derek Lowe investigates the long running tradition of naming reactions after their inventors
Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident
25 January 2013 Research
Scientists in the US believe the health consequences from the Japanese nuclear accident may have been underestimated
Indian supreme court’s anger over unregulated clinical trials
25 January 2013 News and Analysis
Tales of collusion between drug companies and regulators leads court to criticise the government
Switchable catenane ready for data storage
25 January 2013 Research
A highly unusual multi-radical structure that has up to four unpaired electrons, yet remains stable, could find uses in batteries and computer memory
OM Group to exit cobalt business
24 January 2013 Business
Deal worth up to $435 million includes downstream activities, in particular cobalt refining in Kokkola, Finland
Vasella to leave Novartis in August
24 January 2013 Business
Long serving chair of the board of directors will be succeeded by Jörg Reinhardt
Hyperforin
24 January 2013 Totally Synthetic
A flexible natural product synthesis is the key to later drug development
Environmentally friendly alternative to toxic heavy metals in paint
24 January 2013 Research
Enzyme catalysts are more environmentally friendly paint drying agents than cobalt catalysts
Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA?
24 January 2013 Research
Cambridge scientists turn DNA into a data storage medium and use it to store all of Shakespeare's sonnets
Oxytocin
23 January 2013 Podcast | Compounds
Josh Howgego prepares to socialise - and tells us why 'cuddle chemicals' are too good to be true
Too many scientists?
23 January 2013 Comments
The proliferation of PhDs is unsustainable and damaging, says Paula Stephan.
Campaign to save Royal Institution's London home
23 January 2013 News and Analysis
Scientists and the public rally to stop the sale of the building that housed Davy's and Faraday's labs after charity runs into financial difficulties
Chemical climate proxies
23 January 2013 Feature
How do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry
Flu vaccine without the eggs approved
22 January 2013 Business
Flublok does not require flu virus or eggs for manufacture
Post-publication peer review blog launches
22 January 2013 News and Analysis
Chemists hope forum will be a place where published synthetic methods are scrutinised and lab checks are crowd sourced
Mopping up oil spills with marshmallows
22 January 2013 Research
Aerogel can suck up hydrocarbons from water, be wrung out and then reused
India pushes for emergency drug licences
21 January 2013 Business
Government looks set to force licensing of three patented cancer drugs
Flow synthesis for anticancer drug
21 January 2013 Research
A rapid, multi-step flow process has been developed to synthesise the anticancer drug Gleevec
Global convention to limit mercury agreed
21 January 2013 News and Analysis
World signs up to treaty to ban export of mercury but sticking points remain over artisanal mining and coal power plants
Cleaning up
18 January 2013 Jobs Profile (Personal)
From washing clothes to saving lives, the products of Phil Souter’s watery work can be found across the globe, as Helen Carmichael finds out
New method to target malaria
18 January 2013 Research
By modifying an atomic force microscope tip with heparin, blood cells infected with the malaria parasite can be targeted
EU food agency links pesticides to bee decline
18 January 2013 News and Analysis
Agency says neonicotinoids should only be used on crops bees avoid but agrichemical companies dispute its findings
Casting a shadow over green light bulbs
17 January 2013 Research
An analysis of the toxic metals in LEDs and CFLs shows that while they save energy their environmental legacy must not be forgotten
Nanotech patent jungle set to become denser in 2013
17 January 2013 News and Analysis
Is a thicket of patents strangling a nascent industry?
UK companies struggling with Reach
16 January 2013 Business
Regulation is 'elephant in the room' as manufacturers fail to recognise implications
Azo-cops nab CO2 but let N2 go free
16 January 2013 Research
Porous polymers could scrub carbon dioxide from power station flue gases
Spectrometry to the rescue!
15 January 2013 Research
Ion mobility spectrometry could replace sniffer dogs hunting for survivors in the wake of natural disasters
Laropiprant recalled
14 January 2013 Business
Merck & Co says it is recalling Tredaptive tablets, approved in the EU for treating patients with high cholesterol
India sets ambitious targets for science
14 January 2013 News and Analysis
Science policy aims to increase research funding to 2% of GDP by 2017 with the help of private enterprise
Sweetener in the clear once more
14 January 2013 News and Analysis
European food safety body finds no evidence linking aspartame to cancer or any other disease
Pharma industry 'strategic crisis'
11 January 2013 Business
The problem is shrinking margins, caused by price and cost pressure, regulatory change and expiring patents, report says
The art of thinking
11 January 2013 Letters
Students are too busy to think and academics won't sit still. There may be trouble ahead.
Nanotube fibre production in a spin
11 January 2013 Research
Strong, long and conductive: improved recipe means wet-spun carbon nanotube fibres can compete
Following her passion
11 January 2013 Research
Veronique Gouverneur tells Marie Cote about fabulous fluorine and her next challenge
Dow Corning to reduce roster by 500
10 January 2013 Business
Company says it must respond to oversupplied markets, high raw materials costs and poor growth in many regions
Golden rice trial breached ethical guidelines
10 January 2013 News and Analysis
Three Chinese researchers sacked after failing to tell participants parents that rice was genetically modified
Manipulating microswimmers
10 January 2013 Research
Controlling individual swimming devices using laser nudges
Rotaxane mimics ribosome to spin out peptides
10 January 2013 Research
Bio-inspired molecular machine can piece together three amino acids
Quantum timepiece ticks the right boxes
10 January 2013 Research
A clock that relies on the mass of an atom to measure time could be used to settle arguments over the definition of the kilogram
Life at the top
10 January 2013 Feature
Nina Notman asks whether an academic chemistry career can help or hinder when you move up the ladder
EPA focuses on five chemicals
9 January 2013 Business
Risk assessments for five chemicals put out for public consultation
Righting history
9 January 2013 The Crucible
Chemists should learn from the past, says Philip Ball, but they may need a history lesson first
Antifreeze protein's watery dance
9 January 2013 Research
How the proteins that keep animals alive in -30°C temperatures do their job
Crystals aim to light up dark matter
9 January 2013 Research
Scaling calcium tungstate detector up to 500kg will improve chances of finding Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)
Illumina investment push
8 January 2013 Business
$450 million deal for privately owned US firm Verinata Health, which makes chromosomal tests
Phenome centre move ends GSK role
8 January 2013 News and Analysis
‘Olympic legacy’ centre to shift to dedicated Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital facility
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