In focus – Page 25
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FeatureExperimental nanoscience for undergraduates
The recent development of low cost, user-friendly scanning tunnelling microscopes has brought nanoscience experiments into undergraduate laboratories
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FeatureGeorge III, indigo and the blue ring test
Can a urine test offer insight into George III's insanity?
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OpinionHygrometer or hydrometer?
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry. In this issue: hygrometer or hydrometer?
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The MoleA day in the life of an account executive: Claire Long
Claire Long has spent the past 18 months working for Santé Communications as an account executive. She talks to Jonathan Edwards about her typical day
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The MoleAnti-wrinkle potions
The market for skin care products to help combat the signs of ageing is massive, with global sales projected to reach US $69.6 billion in 2010
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The MoleOnion batteries: do they really work or simply end in tears?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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FeatureBelladonna, broomsticks and brain chemistry
Poisonous plants such as deadly nightshade produce toxic tropane alkaloids. These chemicals have been exploited in magic, murder and the design of a host of useful therapeutic drugs
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FeatureCF3SF5 - a 'super' greenhouse gas
Trifluoromethyl sulfur pentafluoride - a byproduct of the electronics industry - has been named a 'super' greenhouse gas by physical chemists
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NewsFuelling the future - on tour
Following the success of its Chemistry Week UK roadshow in 2005 the Royal Society of Chemistry this year ran a national tour
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NewsHollywood science - call for film and TV clips
Dr Jonathan Hare, star of BBC TV's Hollywood science series, wants to investigate the truth behind the science in your favourite film clips
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NewsNobel chemistry rises to the surface
Gerhard Ertl of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany, received the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his pioneering studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
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The MoleCarbon in the pipeline
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) - rolled up sheets of graphite around 90,000 times thinner than human hair
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The MoleTo crack a safe: why would you want to blow up a safe from the inside?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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FeatureEarly pain-free days
Towards the latter part of 19th century cocaine provided the lead for chemists to develop effective local anaesthetics for dental surgery
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FeatureFuelling the future: solid phase hydrogen storage
The portable and safe storage of hydrogen will be fundamental to the success of fuel cell-powered cars