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Chemistry World November 29, 2006 Lionel Milgrom	Pterins, Sex and the Single Butterfly Researchers have characterised the molecular composition and optical properties of pigmented nanoscopic granules found in the tiny wing scales of the pierid butterfly, Pontia protodice.
Chemistry World November 29, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Early Departure for Sussex Vice-Chancellor The vice-chancellor who suggested closing the University of Sussex chemistry department earlier this year has announced he is to step down.
Chemistry World November 28, 2006 Michael Gross	Synthesis Success After 30 Years Chemists at Harvard have succeeded in synthesizing the antibiotic moenomycin A from scratch. They hope that by providing easier access to this molecule and its variants, they might aid the development of new antibiotics based on its structure.
Chemistry World November 28, 2006 Fiona Case	Cold War Clean-up US developers say they are close to a breakthrough in efforts to clean up post-cold-war missiles. The new approach, which is renewable and would cut costs by more than half, would be a significant improvement on what is currently available, they claim.
Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Home-Baked Plants Solve Petrol Mystery Scientists have baked up their own artificial leaf fossils to answer a long-standing puzzle concerning the chemical formation of kerogen, a precursor to fossil fuels.
Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Getting the Dope on a Single Atom of Dopant Scientists have successfully probed the electronic and quantum mechanical properties of a single atom of dopant in a silicon transistor. The research could provide important information necessary for the development of quantum computers.
Chemistry World November 27, 2006	Q&A: Polonium-210 Polonium-210 is reported to have caused the recent fatal poisoning of former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko. Here's an interview with John Emsley, author of Elements of Murder: A History of Poison, about polonium-210 poisoning.
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley	Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible.
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley	Fried Rust Could Prevent Arsenic Poisoning Arsenic-contaminated drinking water, could one day become a thing of the past thanks to the unexpected discovery of the magnetic properties of rusty nanoparticles.
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley	Large-Scale Chemistry Reveals Galactic Origins A chemical survey of inter-galactic systems is shedding star light on our Galaxy's ancestry and revealing it to be very different from that of our neighbors.
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