Alchemical happenings

The second July issue of The Alchemist is now online. In it I report on the latest on the origins of life as well as the heady subject of the European ban on chemicals used in hair dyes. Also, discussed this week, US researchers have made “ice cubes full of crumpled paper” on the microscopic scale while others have built an organic transistor that has environmental potential. Finally, for chemists under pressure, cellulose is really cooking.

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