In focus – Page 26
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SoundbiteHospital beds with a silver lining?
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives
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The MoleUnder water: can you survive by breathing in air from a car tyre?
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
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FeatureI can see clearly now...
Thanks to advances in polymer chemistry contact lenses are now more comfortable and fashionable
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OpinionConcrete stalactites
Peter Borrows takes us on another excursion into local chemistry. In this issue: concrete stalactites
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SoundbiteNo laughing matter
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.
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The MoleAlcatraz: can you weld metals using just burning matches?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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FeatureCocaine - a short trip in time
In the latter half of the 19th century chemists started to investigate the properties of cocaine. Elucidation of its molecular structure followed some 30 years later
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FeatureNanotechnology update
The past 10 years have witnessed myriad R&D programmes in nanotechnology around the world
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OpinionFruit & veg - five a day?
In this issue of the student supplement we look at why eating a diet rich in fruit and veg can help keep the doctors away
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OpinionInventors naming names
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry.
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SoundbiteSilicon and silicones
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives
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FeatureUnderstanding our changing atmosphere
Research by chemists into the chemical processes occurring in the troposphere could help to predict the likely impacts of climate change upon atmospheric conditions
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NewsImperial College celebrates
RSC honours Nobel chemists Sir Derek Barton and Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
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NewsScience minister hears voice of the future
Science minister Malcolm Wicks and members of the Science and Technology Select Committee discuss science issues with young scientists at the RSC's Voice of the Future event