Dec 24, 2007

Chemistry’s Sun Rises in the East

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Many of you will know chemist Andrew Sun from his On the Road blog and from his occasional but insightful comments on the Sciencebase site. I recently interviewed him for the Reactive Reports chemistry webzine and you can read the result there in the current issue. I edited his answers to fit the magazine for length and housestyle but I’ve reproduced his full answers …

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Dec 22, 2007

Don’t Poison Your Dog This Holiday

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‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse

Well, that may not be quite true, do you know what you’re dog is doing right now? What about the cat? They’re not rummaging through the presents under the tree are they? You didn’t leave any luxury plain or dark chocolates under there did you? If you did, …

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Dec 21, 2007

December Chemical Discoveries

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In addition to my interview with Chinese chemist Andrew Sun, mentioned earlier this week, the December issue of Reactive Reports features the pick of chemistry news

 DNA Nanorings  A simple approach to making rigid DNA nanorings with tailor-made functionality has been developed by Michael Famulok and his team at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Sunshine Superpower  In the depths …

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