The Royal Australian Chemical Institute's magazine for and about the chemical science professions
The Royal Australian Chemical Institute's magazine for and about the chemical science professions
Koalas are able to detoxify their diet of eucalypt leaves, but this ability means reduced efficacy of their medicines.
Determined recklessness around party drugs, and the sometimes tragic outcomes, has fuelled the call for pill testing. So what’s involved for chemists?
Our dependence on certain chemical elements is becoming abundantly clear as they become scarce or run out.
Late last year, Dr Suzanne Neville – a lecturer and researcher in the University of New South Wales’s School of Chemistry – received the prestigious Sandy Mathieson Medal, an award for distinguished contributions to science involving X-ray, neutron or electron diffraction/imaging by a researcher under 40 years of age. Lachlan Gilbert talks to her about the work that led to this recognition.
Storytelling brings people closer together. Conceived by the RACI in recognition of the International Year of the Periodic Table, Stories from the Periodic Table collects, publishes and celebrates the personal connections we have to the periodic table and its elements.
My resolve to stay away from the book tables at church fetes, garage sales and places where the detritus of people’s libraries wash up, was...
Some readers of this column have sought my thoughts on a paper recently published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (...
I want to say one word to you. Just one word. 'Plastics'. So goes the dialogue in a scene from The Graduate, filmed in 1967. Fast forward to...
Fifty years ago, American medical researchers Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr published ‘Infection as the etiology of...
The great claw of crabs lends its Greek name, via Latin, to a group of chemicals called chelates. Chelates hold a central metal in a claw-like...
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