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The truth about snake oil?

8 April 2013 Research

First analyses of elixirs, nostrums and other cures sold at the turn of the last century

Healthy chocolate gets a vodka jelly reboot

7 April 2013 Research

Warwick team who reduced the fat in chocolate using fruit juice create new system to add alcohol

Beer filtration could add arsenic

7 April 2013 Research

German institution that analyses beer suspects common filtration material could add arsenic to the mix

Roche to release Tamiflu trial data

5 April 2013 Business

The company will drip feed data to the Cochrane Collaboration, but with some elements redacted

Mesoporous materials from macroalgae

5 April 2013 Research

A cheap and sustainable route to mesoporous materials – from seaweed

More clues to Maya blue

5 April 2013 Research

Their pigment lasted longer than their culture, but how did Maya chemists make their long lasting blue colour?

Controversial pesticides down but not out

5 April 2013 News and Analysis

US environment agency sued over continued use of neonicotinoids as arguments continues to rage about their link to bee deaths

Canada investigates silenced scientists

5 April 2013 News and Analysis

Information commissioner will follow up complaints of government interference and 'muzzling' of researchers talking to the press

Fat chemistry – the science behind obesity

5 April 2013 Review

Calorific chemistry

Regeneron expands, creating 400 new jobs

4 April 2013 News and Analysis

US biotech firm announces second expansion in six months

Chemistry World podcast - April 2013

4 April 2013 Podcast | Monthly

Geoffrey Kibby on mushroom chemistry, Paul Midgley illuminates 3D imaging and the team cover the latest news

Amylin headquarters to close with further job losses

4 April 2013 Business

Bristol-Myers Squibb plans to shutter the San Diego, US, site following last year’s merger

An artful solution to scientist shortfall

4 April 2013 Comments

Joe Connor recalls a little known scheme to persuade arts students into science and asks what we might learn from it today

Titanium oxides in stellar clouds finally pinned down

4 April 2013 Research

Thirty year search ends after titanium dioxide is spotted around Big Dog star

A solution to fluoronium riddle

4 April 2013 Research

Elegant experiment lets chemists glimpse the elusive ion by tallying isomers

Power-up with edible electronics

4 April 2013 Research

Scientists develop ingestible current sources made from edible materials

Massachusetts crime lab scandal explodes

4 April 2013 News and Analysis

A second Massachusetts state chemist has been charged with evidence tampering after more than 300 convicted inmates have been released

Droplet printing assembles soft networks

4 April 2013 Research

New 3D printing technique vastly scales up droplet networks, opening up new potential applications from soft robotics to drug delivery

Vancomycin

3 April 2013 Podcast | Compounds

Simon Cotton explains the discovery of 'the drug of last resort'

Nanopaper light scattering under control

3 April 2013 Research

Changing the diameter of cellulose fibres in nanopaper tunes its optical properties and could lead to high performance optoelectronic devices

Toxic industry dyes found in Indian sweets

3 April 2013 Research

About 16% of sweets tested contained illegal colours and many more had excess levels of approved colourings

Funding boost for PhDs

2 April 2013 News and Analysis

EPSRC to invest £84.2 million in postgraduate training through doctoral training grants

From lab to leader

2 April 2013 In the Pipeline

Derek Lowe asks (with some trepidation): do drug companies need scientists at the top?

More job cuts...

2 April 2013 Editorial

And a thank you message to our 200,000 Twitter followers

New diagnostic test lights up bacteria

2 April 2013 Research

Rhodamine probe for low-level Staphylococcus aureus detection