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Village will commemorate the family it allowed to starve to death
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has persuaded a village to commemorate a family starved to death on its green in 1769, ending a 240-year silence.
12 March 2009
Reward offered for oldest working light bulb in a British home
A search is launched today to discover the oldest light bulb still glowing strong in a British home.
30 January 2009
Oliver Twist gruel recreated
Gruel, the meal for hard times, of which Oliver Twist famously wanted more, will be served to the public in London on Tuesday morning.
13 January 2009
Yorkshire pudding must be four inches tall, chemists rule
A Yorkshire pudding isn't a Yorkshire pudding if it is less than four inches tall, says the Royal Society of Chemistry.
12 November 2008
£1,000,000 for 100% chemical free material?
The Royal Society of Chemistry is today reclaiming the word chemical from the advertising and marketing industries.
30 October 2008
"Italian Job" cliff-hanger solution sought
The Royal Society of Chemistry is inviting the public to devise a successful ending to the greatest-ever cinema cliff-hanger to mark the 40th birthday
20 October 2008
British guiltiest in survey of Western European shower habits
Water-wasting and uncaring about gels, shampoos and soap going down the plughole: that's how the British emerge from a survey on showering habits of w
14 July 2008
Powder power - a simple, efficient route to hydrogen fuel
Chemists in the US have developed a simple reaction to make ammonia borane - a powder more hydrogen-dense than even liquid hydrogen. Their one-pot syn
23 June 2008
Gas mask inventor Harrison honoured in death by Churchill
The RSC has discovered a handwritten letter by Winston Churchill, sent to the widow of Edward Harrison, a chemist who invented the gas mask during the
10 June 2008
In memory of Joe Spencer
It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Dr Jonathan (Joe) Spencer, age 47. He was killed in a car accident near Cambridge on 6 April.
09 April 2008
Cleaning up after nerve agents
A new decontamination agent devised by US chemists can deactivate toxic chemicals such as nerve agents and pesticides - leaving only non-toxic, easily
31 March 2008
Ionic liquid thermometers are better, quicker and safer
Poisonous mercury in thermometers has been replaced by harmless and better performing ionic liquids in research by scientists from Europe and the US,
26 March 2008