All Feature articles – Page 28

  • Bone scan 28 days after two different types of scaffold implantation. Using new materials could enhance the body's bone repair mechanisms
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    Glass bones

    2006-11-01T00:00:00Z

    'Bioactive' ceramic and glass alternatives could improve the quality of life for millions of people suffering from osteoporosis

  • yew tree berry and needle - natural products offer myriad life-saving medicines
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    Natural products - back in vogue

    2006-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Chemists are once again turning to Nature to replenish the medicine chest

  • Creating copper
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    Applied science: on course

    2006-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Applied science has a key role in the 14-16 curriculum, and its popularity is growing

  • A variety of coins
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    Ancient coins

    2006-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Chemistry has played its part in numismatics - in the manufacture, analysis, aesthetics and conservation of coinage

  • Popcorn
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    Making the most of starch

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    With some clever chemistry starch represents an enormous and sustainable source of renewable carbon for non-food applications.

  • Chapattis
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    Chapattis and the English disease

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    In the early 1700s in England 'nothing was so much feared or talk'd of as Rickets among Children'. We now know that this softening of the bones, is caused by a deficiency of vitamin D.

  • purple material
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    A forgotten anniversary?

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Has the significance of William Henry Perkin's synthesis of the purple dye mauveine begun to fade?

  • A London street
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    Dirty air

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    What constitutes ground-level air pollution and what are the impacts of such pollutants on Man and the environment?

  • Bare legs out of doors
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    Biting insects - a challenge for chemists

    2006-07-01T00:00:00Z

    In many parts of the world biting insects are major disease vectors, being the source of malaria and yellow fever for example, though in the UK they are mainly just a nuisance

  • image - brown mosquito
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    Artemisinin and a new generation of antimalarial drugs

    2006-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Every year between one and two million people - mainly children - living in the tropics and subtropics die of malaria.

  • Amadeo Avogadro
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    Amadeo Avogadro 1776-1856

    2006-07-01T00:00:00Z

    This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of the Italian chemical physicist, Amedeo Avogadro.

  • Image - Cotton - eating chilli
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    Spicing up Chemistry

    2006-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Spices have been used in cooking since Roman times, and were believed to be important as antiparasitic agents and as gastrointestinal protectants in the diet

  • A plaque showing where Bedford college was founded
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    Pioneering women chemists of Bedford College

    2006-05-01T00:00:00Z

    In the early part of the 20th century, a few institutions seemed to have been havens for women interested in chemistry.

  • Titan and its mysterious atmosphere
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    Titan - a museum of the Earth's atmosphere

    2006-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn, has an atmosphere that is predominantly nitrogen with a small amount of carbon present in the form of methane and higher hydrocarbons.

  • Chlorpromazine - unlocked the asylum door for many patients
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    Chlorpromazine - unlocks the asylum

    2006-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The history of pharmaceuticals is enriched by accounts of drugs developed for one therapeutic purpose that found application in another. This is true for chlorpromazine, a treatment for severe mental illness

  • Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov
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    In the steps of Markovnikov

    2006-03-01T00:00:00Z

    The addition reactions of HCl and HBr to propene to give either 2-chloropropane or 2-bromopropane are often given as examples of Markovnikov's Rule, but in his original 1870 paper, Markovnikov used HI and not HBr or HCl.

  • An image of the world made from plant debris
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    The carbon dioxide problem

    2006-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Measuring carbon dioxide from plant debris provides an opportunity for an inquiry-based experiment aimed at 14-15 year olds. Similar experiments are done by soil scientists and ecologists in their efforts to understand the global carbon cycle

  • A chimney sweeper in 1850
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    Percivall Pott, chimney sweeps and cancer

    2006-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Over 200 years ago, doctor and writer Percivall Pott made the astute connection between soot and scrotal cancer, known then as the chimney sweep's cancer.

  • dna main
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    Chemistry, medicine and genetic analysis

    2006-03-01T00:00:00Z

    In the near future, doctors will be able to carry out a 'while you wait' test, using genetic analysis, for chlamydia, the silent disease that can lead to infertility in women. 

  • Acid mine drainage in spain
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    Acid mine drainage - a legacy of an industrial past

    2006-03-01T00:00:00Z

    The environmental damage caused by acid mine drainage (AMD) is a worldwide and growing problem in those countries that once, or are still, extracting coal and/or metals. What is AMD, what effect does it have on the environment, and what can be done about