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Chemistry World Podcast
January 2011
1.15: No stone left unturned in oil hunt
3.45: Mystery of diamond polishing solved?
6.50: Jack Lifton on the importance of rare earth elements and why we need to conserve them
14.25: Living on Arsenic?
17.10: Nanotube material retains bounce at extreme temperatures
19.16: Stefan Tautz on microscopes that can look at chemical bonds between atoms
26.00: Using fruit flies' sweet tooth
27.45: The medicine's in the (wine) bottle
30.46: Monthly trivia: As pure as snow? Not so
Read more about this month's stories
No stone left unturned in oil hunt
03 December 2010
Unrecovered oil in mature oil fields could be found by a nanoparticle injected into rocks
Mystery of diamond polishing solved?
29 November 2010
Researchers use molecular dynamics to come up with an atomic-level explanation for how diamond is polished
Critical thinking
As our supply of some essential elements dries up, it's time to start urban mining. Emma Davies reports
Arsenic sustains life
03 December 2010
A microorganism that feeds on the toxic element arsenic instead of essential nutrient phosphorus has been discovered by US researchers
Nanotube material retains bounce at extreme temperatures
02 December 2010
Carbon nanotubes can make a rubber like material that remains usable in a temperature range of over one thousand degrees
Picture perfect pentacene
Advances in microscopy are letting us see not just atoms but the chemical bonds in between them. James Mitchell Crow takes a closer look
The medicine's in the (wine) bottle
19 November 2010
Red wine contains enough antioxidants to rival the activity of diabetes drug rosiglitazone
Using fruit flies' sweet tooth
02 December 2010
Australian researchers use fruit flies to help develop new sugar alternatives
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