The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
This year’s Nobel prize for chemistry has just been announced. The Nobel prize is an award for a piece of research or work over a period of time which has changed the way scientists think about their […]
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
Yesterday John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka were announced as the joint winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. This discovery was one […]
What else has existed on earth in all three phases…
Organic chemistry (things we can do with fossil fuels) is such a fascinating and important branch of the chemical sciences, in its simplest terms it involves looking at carbon based compounds and their reactions. Your task […]
Musical Chemists
Today the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Prof David Phillips appeared on BBC Radio 3’s private passions. As you head toward the end of your exams perhaps have a listen to one of […]
Euro 2012 Kickoff
With the start of Euro 2012, today’s post looks at Buckyballs. A Buckyball is a compound made only of carbon in the form of a sphere, looking much like a football! Buckyballs are types of […]
Things you may have missed on chemstuff…
Over the past few weeks there have been several updates to the chemstuff pages which you may have missed. The pages for year 7, year 8 and year 9 have all been updated with more […]
Chemistry of money
Today’s news has returned to the discussion of many of the financial problems currently hitting the euro zone, and following on from yesterdays Chemstuff post on rare earth elements, I thought I would post about […]
Revision techniques…
Originally posted on LiaPerry:
So, as i find it really hard to just get on and start my revision, I decided i would revise through a blog that would hopefully help some other people as…
Rare earth elements
You may have seen the news that the planet Venus passed across the sun today in an event that will not be seen again for another 105 years. Such a rare astronomical event got me […]
Most interesting chemistry site?
I’m often asked where people can find things about chemistry and there are loads of places around. If you are revising for GCSE’s then I’d always start with BBC Bitesize, its full of loads of […]
