All News articles – Page 53

  • Chemistry week logo
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    RSC chemistry week 2007

    2007-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) national Chemistry Week will run from 3-11 November 2007

  • Element 112 on the periodic table
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    Element 112 shows family traits

    2007-07-01T00:00:00Z

    An experiment by a team of Russian, Polish and Swiss scientists shows that element 112 is chemically more akin to its Group 12 relative mercury than any noble gas element

  • A patient in the dentist's chair
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    Teeth whiteners

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    John Emsley looks at the chemistry behind familiar, everyday products

  • Speech bubble
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    Rate of reaction

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    To inform approaches to teaching about chemical change researchers from the UK and Turkey have studied young people's understanding of reaction rate

  • Cover of Giant leaps: Mankind's greatest scientific advances... told by the Sun and the Science Museum
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    Science hits the headlines

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    James Berressem reviews this engaging text

  • A young scientist speaking at the forum
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    Science minister hears voice of the future

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • A scientist holing a test tube with a pound symbol in
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    RSC funding for research

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Members (and non-member school teachers) can apply for grants of up to £2000 from the 2008 RSC Research Fund to support research or chemical education research

  • Eroded American flag
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    US chemistry in question

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Findings of a US National Research Council report suggest a problem of a sustainable supply of chemistry BScs will affect the future of US chemistry research

  • Cover of Chemistry (3rd edn)
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    Foundation in chemistry

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Hal Sosabowski reviews the new edition of  Chemistry

  • Cover of chemistry and medicines
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    What is medicinal chemistry?

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    John Mann reviews an introductory text

  • Cover of Lust and love: is it more than chemistry?
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    Love chemically

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Mike Shipton reviews this unusual text

  • Students on a university campus
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    Cash for HE chemistry experience

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Ten projects designed to improve students' initial experience of studying chemistry have received funding through the Chemistry for Our Future programme

  • The Liverpool Blue Coat School winning team
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    Blue coat school wins top of the bench trophy

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    A team of students from the Blue Coat School, Liverpool, wins the final of the RSC's Top of the Bench national schools' competition

  • Donkey on the beach
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    Avoiding the travel bug

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Vaccination is our best defence against catching numerous infectious diseases while travelling abroad

  • GSCE AQA science workbook
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    AQA GCSE

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Wendy Pitt reviews the workbook and revision guide

  • Students in a South African classroom
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    Science in South Africa

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Researchers from South Africa and Australia have teamed up to introduce South African teachers to new teaching methods and to monitor how these affect students' performance

  • Looking towards the University of Lincoln across the Brayford Pool
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    Lincoln adds HE to chemistry

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    More good news for the provision of chemistry in HE as the University of Lincoln announces that it will introduce a chemistry degree course in 2008

  • Poppies
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    Biological implications of acetylation

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Medicinal compounds: John Mann takes a look at drugs on the market

  • Teaching creatively
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    Key Stage 3 - teachers' choice

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    QCA is offering a less prescriptive curriculum at KS3 that could be tuned by teachers to meet the needs of all students. What does this new found freedom mean for science teachers?

  • A student holding a test tube
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    GCSE for the 21st century

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The first in a series of evaluations of the Twenty first century science GCSE course shows that the course is an improvement on traditional courses