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Instant insight: Lovely bubbly
05 September 2008
Gérard Liger-Belair, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, celebrates what give champagne its sparkle

Copper-free clicking
05 September 2008
Dutch scientists have stepped towards improving the tracers used in the 3D imaging of cancerous tumours

Designing natural product hybrids with anticancer activity
04 September 2008
A potent hybrid of two anticancer natural products has been designed and synthesised by UK chemists.

A Titan discovery
29 August 2008
European researchers step closer to explaining hydrocarbon formation on Saturn's largest moon.

Crystal phases get ID'd
20 August 2008
It is now easier to automatically ID crystal phases in zeolites, thanks to scientists in Spain

Knockout nanoparticles fight infection
20 August 2008
Septicaemia causing bacteria take a blow from two different types of antibacterial nanoparticles

Chemical Science issue 9 available online now
20 August 2008
Drawing together the best content from all RSC publications, to provide a snapshot of the latest developments across the chemical sciences.

Propylene oxide gets a green makeover
18 August 2008
An industrially important compound is made in a more environmentally conscious way

Sweet smell of success
18 August 2008
German scientists have used an ionic liquid coating on a hydrogenation catalyst to make sweet smelling chemicals

Getting to grips with complex chirality
14 August 2008
A proposal for defining the chirality of octahedral complexes with chelate ligands has been put forward

Energy from model enzymes
12 August 2008
Mimicking enzymes with inorganic complexes could offer a new route to catalysing hydrogen fuel cells, claim Japanese scientists.

Instant insight: Tasting the chemistry
12 August 2008
Susan Ebeler, University of California, Davis, US, reveals the science behind the flavour in everyone's favourite tipple

When convection goes without a bang
05 August 2008
UK researchers have been investigating how to predict whether a reacting mixture will explode

Newspaper filters out gold
04 August 2008
Ordinary newspaper can be used to recover precious metals from industrial wastewater, say researchers in Japan

