All RSC Education articles in May 2010
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The MoleA day in the life of a trainee patent attorney: Jessica Kershaw
Jessica Kershaw has spent the past four months as a trainee patent attorney for Carpmaels & Ransford, London. She talks to Tom Westgate about her typical day
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FeatureSynthetic vaccines
The design of synthetic vaccines offers a more systematic approach to vaccine therapy for many illnesses, including cancer, and even drug addiction
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OpinionFrom pewter to pinchbeck
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry.
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NewsUK Olympiad team selected
Four sixthformers win their places to represent the UK at the 42nd International Chemistry Olympiad in Tokyo this summer
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NewsNew Zealand versus Thailand
How do secondary school science students compare in the two countries?
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NewsPractical motivation?
Ian Abrahams, the London Institute of Education, investigates the role practical work has in motivating students
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SoundbiteMeow meow or M-kat
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives
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FeatureModern mass spectrometry
Advances in mass spectrometry (MS) technology over the past 30 years have pushed this technique into the hands of biologists and biochemists
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FeatureMaking the most of valency
Teachers are encouraged to use valency as a way of rationalising the atomic composition of a large number of compounds
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MathsSignificant figures
Tips for teaching maths skills to our future chemists, by Paul Yates of Keele University
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ReviewLies, demand lies, and science
Len Polluck reviews this look into the relationship between science and public policy
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NewsFoundation degrees for industry
Foundation degrees for the science-based industries available from September 2011
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FeatureMass spectrometry - the early days
1912, physicist Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson discovers mass spectrometry
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NewsImproving CPD
Researchers in Germany exploit the findings of educational research in a professional development course for school science teachers
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NewsGet practical - on course
A course for chemistry teachers and technicans aimed at improving practical work in the classroom
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Exhibition chemistryNitrogen triiodide - a sensitive, contact explosive
Create a beautiful cloud of vapour mixed and gas with this safe contact explosive demonstration
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