Exciting science?
How many chemists started their education and careers with a chemistry set? All those fascinating experiments listed in the instruction book to try out, together with the more interesting, and certain...
Regulation grinds on
So the first stage of the Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) has been completed (C&I 2008, 23, 6). And we now wait for the first anguished cries from European companies a...
Small can be beautiful
Should we always assume that everyone knows what we scientists are doing? And, as the experience with the Large Hadron Collider has shown, knowledge does not necessarily mean understanding. The same i...
Bringing power to the people
Looking at different national policies for the development of renewable and alternative energy sources can be very depressing. Elsewhere in this issue C&I reports on an independent survey conducted on...
Steep hill to climb
From the day he was confirmed as US president-elect, Barack Obama had 77 days until his inauguration on January 2009 to put his administration in place. Of the thousands of appointments he has to make...