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Recycling rare earth elements using ionic liquids

15 March 2013 Research

Using ionic liquids to recycle neodymium and samarium from old magnets could address a critical supply problem in the electronics industry

Hydrogen's false economy

14 March 2013 Comments

Hydrogen-powered cars are not going to save the world, and the sooner we realise it the better, argues Mark Peplow

Elusive desorption precursor spied by x-ray laser

14 March 2013 Research

State first proposed over 70 years ago by Langmuir is finally observed

MPs call for a bridge over ‘valley of death’

14 March 2013 News and Analysis

Small businesses are being let down by the UK government and new models of financial support are urgently needed

Sir James Dewar, 1842–1923 – a ruthless chemist

14 March 2013 Review

The man behind the flask

Exoplanet spectrum hints at ‘core accretion’

14 March 2013 Research

Direct imaging reveals unprecedented levels of detail including the presence of water and carbon monoxide

Dispute over Arkema finances

13 March 2013 Business

French speciality chemical company Arkema accused of misrepresenting business sold to investment firm last year

Curiosity's mission to Mars with x-ray vision

13 March 2013 Jobs Profile (Company)

As Nasa’s Curiosity rover roams the red planet, Nicola Davis talks to the scientists whose laboratory is a million miles away

University cleared, student recovering after poisoning

13 March 2013 News and Analysis

Seemingly deliberate thallium and arsenic exposure leaves Southampton PhD chemist fighting nerve damage

Cadmium sulfide

13 March 2013 Podcast | Compounds

Brian Clegg brightens up our lives with some bright yellow chemistry

Removing toxic chemicals with POPs

13 March 2013 Research

Porous organic polymers can be tailored to filter the air for toxic compounds, and don’t degrade in moist or corrosive environments

Antibiotic resistance is a ‘ticking time bomb’

13 March 2013 News and Analysis

Efforts to tackle the threat will need new thinking, but their may be no easy solutions or short cuts to new drugs

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

Deceived wisdom

13 March 2013 Review

General ignorance

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,

Handbook of less common nanostructures

8 March 2013 Review

Lesser spotted nano

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