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Chemistry World January 28, 2015 |
Rubriflordilactone A It's likely that organic chemists have been practicing retrosynthesis in one form or another for at least a century, and certainly for decades before E J Corey formalized the concept in the mid-1990s |
Chemistry World January 28, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Tiny volcanic cracks 'incubated' ancient DNA Tiny pores within volcanic rocks on ancient Earth may have provided the ideal conditions for replicating molecules, and could also have driven the evolution of longer and longer genetic sequences, researchers in Germany have shown. |
Chemistry World January 27, 2015 Emma Stoye |
BPA use poses 'no health risks', says EU The European Food Safety Authority's latest evaluation of bisphenol A has concluded that at current levels of exposure the chemical does not pose a health threat to any age group. |
Chemistry World January 27, 2015 Jonathan Midgley |
Plant plaster protects wine from vine decline The new patch developed by Alexander Yarin, of the University of Illinois, contains a dense network of nanofibers and can be directly applied to the vine to physically prevent disease spores from entering a wound. |
Chemistry World January 27, 2015 Philip Ball |
The spirit of the matter De diversis artibus, a treatise written in the 12th century by a German Benedictine monk named Theophilus, is a remarkable chemical recipe book. |
Chemistry World January 26, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Alkali metal explosion explained The chemistry behind dropping sodium into water and watching it explode may require a rethink, according to scientists in the Czech Republic. |
Chemistry World January 26, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Blue LEDs may be caught in a trap Blue LEDs are notoriously difficult to make, which has slowed down the production of cheap, highly efficient white LED light bulbs. Now, UK scientists think they know why. |
Chemistry World January 23, 2015 Simon Neil |
Self-cleaning sensors see the light Scientists in Italy have engineered a cheap and simple electrochemical sensor that cleans itself when exposed to ultraviolet light. |
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Katie Lian Hui Lim |
Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity. |
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Simon Hadlington |
Diamond sensor atom scale imaging proposed Researchers in the US have devised a novel strategy for mapping multiple nuclear spins in a single molecule using quantum sensors in diamond. |
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