Chemistry

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Chemistry World January 10, 2013 Holly Sheahan	Manipulating microswimmers US scientists have found a way to control the direction of microscopic swimming robots using lasers. This is the first time that anyone has used a method like this to control a microscale particle in solution, they say.
Chemistry World January 10, 2013 Laura Howes	Rotaxane mimics ribosome to spin out peptides The field of molecular machines has taken a new bio-inspired turn to assemble another molecule, in this case linking up individual amino acids into a peptide.
Chemistry World January 9, 2013 Andy Extance	Crystals aim to light up dark matter German scientists hunting dark matter are set to produce half a ton of high-purity calcium tungstate for their detectors, one 1kg crystal at a time.
Chemistry World January 9, 2013 Andrew Turley	EPA focuses on five chemicals The US Environmental Protection Agency has released for public comment draft risk assessments of five chemicals found in common household products.
Chemistry World January 9, 2013 Laura Howes	Antifreeze protein's watery dance Most animals left in -30 C temperatures wouldn't last very long. Not only would they get hypothermia, but the water in their bodies would start to freeze. Some animals and plants, however, use antifreeze proteins to keep ice at bay.
Chemistry World January 9, 2013 Philip Ball	Righting history Every chemistry student can benefit from some understanding of their subject's evolution, and they deserve more than comforting myths.
Chemistry World January 9, 2013 Stephen Ashworth	Mathematically rigorous In Physical Chemistry, by M. Sangaranarayanan and M. Mahadevan, a broad sweep of expected material is covered, with some unusual additions, in a mathematically rigorous and concise fashion.
Chemistry World January 8, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Superomniphobic surface sees off non-Newtonian fluids A material that is equally good at repelling water, oil, concentrated acid and alkali solutions, and non-Newtonian fluids like polymer solutions has been created by chemists in the US.
Chemistry World January 7, 2013 Laura Howes	Digging up ancient drug formulations Some of the medicines we take today, such as aspirin, have a long history. But analysis of drugs found in an ancient shipwreck that sank in the second century BC threw up some compounds that are still being used by the medical profession today.
Chemistry World January 7, 2013 James Urquhart	Kilogram ready to slim down for the new year UK scientists have developed a cleaning technique that could solve a long-standing puzzle in the field of metrology -- how to return the standard kilogram, against which all others are measured, to its original mass.
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