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Chemistry World
February 18, 2010
Hayley Birch |
First sugars needed silicates to survive Earth's first complex sugars could have formed with a little help from silicate ions, according to a new study by US chemists.   |
Chemistry World
February 16, 2010
Sean Milmo |
New scheme to boost bio-based chemistry The European Commission has launched an initiative to help chemical companies switch to renewable feedstocks and energy sources. |
Chemistry World
February 15, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Decades-old meteorite gets holistic treatment A new technique used to analyse samples from a meteorite that hit Australia more than 40 years ago could help scientists understand more about the chemical complexity of the early solar system. |
Chemistry World
February 15, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Profile: The future of French science Alain Fuchs, the chemist and newly installed president of France's National Centre for Scientific Research, admits he has one major concern about his new role. |
Chemistry World
February 15, 2010
Andy Extance |
Reversing attraction shrinks car batteries Transforming the most important attractive force acting between molecules into a repulsive one could enable US scientists to nearly halve the size of lithium-ion batteries. |
Chemistry World
February 14, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Efficient solar cells from silicon wires US researchers have designed a new silicon-based solar cell which uses 100 times less silicon than conventional photovoltaic devices. |
Chemistry World
February 10, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Ferroelectrics without the twist Japanese chemists have developed a new ferroelectric material based on small hydrogen-bonded molecular crystals of croconic acid. |
Chemistry World
February 10, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Inching towards the island of stability An international team of researchers has for the first time directly measured the mass of an element heavier than uranium. |
Chemistry World
February 8, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Cancer risk from 'third-hand smoke' Nicotine residues on indoor surfaces can react with ambient gases to generate cancer-causing compounds, researchers in the US have found. |
Chemistry World
February 8, 2010
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
To catch a cheating athlete As the athletes take center stage at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games this month, chemists will be hard at work behind the scenes to catch athletes looking to win by taking drugs or blood products to artificially boost their performance during the competition. |
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