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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

London mayor accused over dust suppressants

28 March 2013 News and Analysis

European commission investigating whether technology was used to 'hide' high levels of pollution in the city

Ionic liquids win Great British Innovation Vote

28 March 2013 News and Analysis

Potential of green solvents recognised as UK technology that will shape the 21st century

20 years ago: The rising tide

28 March 2013 Flashback

Committee of Women in Science and Technology is set up by the Office of Science and Technology

Surface freezing in nanodroplets

28 March 2013 Research

First experimental evidence shown for surface freezing in alkane nanodroplets

Copper catalysis sees the light

28 March 2013 Research

Copper nanoparticle's oxidation state can be tuned using visible light, enabling industrially important propylene epoxidation