Chemistry

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Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Ice Twists Under Pressure Confined inside tiny, hollow cylinders called carbon nanotubes, and subjected to high pressures similar to those found at a planet's core, water freezes into tiny ice spirals that resemble the DNA double helix, a new study shows.
Chemistry World April 2007 Jon Evans	Better, Stronger, Faster In the 1970s, the idea of building a bionic man was merely fantastical. Now we have bionic eyes and limbs, and chemists are creating artificial bodily tissues to rival nature's own.
Chemistry World April 2007 Derek Lowe	Opinion: In the Pipeline Natural products can be ridiculously complicated. The sheer difficulty of the enterprise is traditionally what made pharmaceutical companies hire people who had worked in total synthesis. But, is total synthesis research still worth the effort?
Chemistry World April 2007 Philip Ball	Opinion: The Crucible Copper doorknobs could be the latest - and oldest - way to beat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The microbe dies within an hour of so on copper surfaces, whereas the bacteria survive for days on stainless steel.
Chemistry World April 2007 Dylan Stiles	Opinion: Bench Monkey Science may never be able to explain why extending propionic acid by three carbons changes the smell from cheese to goats. Some questions may be better left unanswered.
Chemistry World April 2007 Yfke Hager	Careers: Record Breaker As a teenager in a small Russian town, Andrei Khlobystov stood out for his desire to be a chemist. He is now making waves in the UK with his nano work.
Chemistry World March 28, 2007 Victoria Gill	New Limits Set on Chirality Researchers have set a new standard in stereochemistry. Measuring Raman optical activity, they have confirmed the spatial arrangement of a molecule with almost impossibly subtle chirality: (R)-[ 2H 1, 2H 2, 2H 3]-neopentane.
Chemistry World March 28, 2007 Michael Gross	The Actinides, Not so Unpredictable After All Researchers have developed a theory suggesting that quantum mechanical superposition between different states may be to blame for the unpredictability of the elements in the middle of the actinides series.
Chemistry World March 27, 2007 Arthur Rogers	Harmonising Pharmaceutical Quality Worldwide A new headquarters incorporating 1800 square meters of laboratory space was inaugurated recently, offering state-of-the-art accommodation and technical facilities for the European Pharmacopoeia's 160 personnel, of whom half are scientists.
Chemistry World March 26, 2007 John Bonner	Termites' Enzyme Anomaly Japanese researchers have discovered a previously unknown method used by termites to digest cellulose. The discovery offers a novel source of enzymes to assist in the production of biofuels, they suggest.
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