All articles by Simon Cotton – Page 3

  • A baby drinking milk
    Soundbite

    Bisphenol A (BPA)

    2009-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.

  • Sweat marks on ashirt
    The Mole

    Sweaty smells

    2009-03-01T16:27:00Z

    That’s chemistry: What is sweat, and why does it smell?

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    Feature

    If it smells - it's chemistry

    2009-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Smell is the most chemical of all the senses - but what's the theory behind the practice?

  • A window cleaner on a skyscraper
    Soundbite

    Titanium dioxide

    2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.

  • Chemistry in the garden cover
    Review

    Chemistry in the garden

    2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton reviews this text on natural chemistry

  • A woman kissing an old man - Methylene blue offers hope to Alzheimer's disease patients
    Soundbite

    Methylene blue

    2008-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.

  • Poison dart frog
    Feature

    Deadly things come in small packages

    2008-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Painstaking work by chemists to characterise deadly alkaloids exuded in the skin of some brightly coloured poison arrow frogs has offered leads for new and useful pharmaceuticals

  • Using a petrol station pump
    Soundbite

    Lactones as biofuel

    2008-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.

  • A depressed looking teen holding prozac
    News

    Prozac problems

    2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives

  • A child eating a vanilla ice cream
    Soundbite

    Vanillin

    2008-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives

  • Cover of Better looking, better living, better loving
    News

    Chemistry - because you're worth it

    2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton reviews this 'popular chemistry' book

  • Bedclothes
    Soundbite

    Hospital beds with a silver lining?

    2007-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives

  • A group dancing at a club
    Soundbite

    No laughing matter

    2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.

  • Silicon
    Soundbite

    Silicon and silicones

    2007-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives

  • Element 112 on the periodic table
    News

    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

  • Mustard on a hot dog
    Soundbite

    Sinigrin

    2007-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives

  • Poison dart frog
    Soundbite

    Frog defence against AIDS?

    2007-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.

  • Hydrogen peroxide
    Soundbite

    Hydrogen peroxide

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.

  • Element 118
    News

    Element 118 reported (again)

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    In 1999, scientists at the American Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reported the synthesis of element 118...

  • A cone snail
    Soundbite

    Conotoxins

    2006-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives