All RSC Education articles in September 2007
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News
UK students tough it out
UK students medal at the finals of the 39th International Chemistry Olympiad competition, held at Moscow State University in Russia in July
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Feature
Nanotechnology update
The past 10 years have witnessed myriad R&D programmes in nanotechnology around the world
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News
Materials and their properties
Neil Dixon reviews this collection of videos, animations and worksheets Peter Hollamby
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News
Making the most of museum trips
Jennifer DeWitt and Jonathan Osborne of King's College, London offer a framework designed to enhance the effectiveness of visits to science museums
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Soundbite
No 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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News
RSC rewards innovative teachers
Michael Hayward of Birkenhead School, Oxton, Wirral and the University of Leicester's Dr Jonny Woodward receive RSC teaching awards
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News
Textbook explanation
How certain phenomena are explained in key undergraduate chemistry texts is the focus of a study by Vicente Talanquer of the University of Arizona
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News
Ideas for teaching earth science
A new initiative, launching in 2008 as part of the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE), will offer science teachers fresh ideas on teaching about Earth science
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The Mole
Online discussion
US researchers report on an online discussion system which is designed to integrate and support scientific discussions within the classroom
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Maths
Displaying data
Tips for teaching maths skills to our future chemists, by Paul Yates of Keele University
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News
Non-specialist teachers on course
Non-specialist chemistry teachers benefit from tailored Inset course thanks to the RSC and GlaxoSmithKline
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Opinion
Concrete stalactites
Peter Borrows takes us on another excursion into local chemistry. In this issue: concrete stalactites
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News
Students join a growing community
Since its launch in September 2006 some 1200 UK students have joined ChemNet
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Feature
Cocaine - 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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News
Crime scene chemistry
Mark Baron reviews this introduction to chemistry for university students
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Feature
Harnessing solar energy with Grätzel cells
Chemists from the Universities of Loughborough and Bristol have teamed up to take a research-based project into local schools