"A chemistry webzine that is attractively put together and
takes a pride in being cutting edge,"
Steve Marshall, New Scientist.
Issue 33 - August 2003
Two-faced
Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals
could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory
instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to
treat dyslexia.
The
Miniature Rotarians Tiny interlocking wheels are the
components of a miniscule molecular rotor designed and built by UK
chemists.
Catalytic
Gel Gels are commonplace from lime Jell-o to invigorating
minty shower gels. Now, a German-Dutch team has developed an
organometallic complex that acts as a novel gelling agent for
organic solvents.
Liquorice
versus SARS An extract of liquorice root already used to
treat HIV could become the first line of defence against a future
outbreak of SARS, according to German researchers.
Climatic models A
fundamental flaw in our models of global climate change has been exposed
by Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Odor sniffers Tracking
down smells that even the most sensitive human nose cannot pick up is
now possible, thanks to an inexpensive sensor devised by scientists at
the University of Bonn.
Combined effort
for cholesterol New drugs for lipid disorders might be on the
horizon thanks to new work on the transcriptional sensor FXR (farnesoid
X receptor).
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