by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor When my wife and I got engaged, one of our friends gave us a very special card featuring a familiar-looking shape. Drawing on my undergraduate chemistry courses, I identified it as the face-centred cubic crystalline structure of diamond; the little “C’s” stood for carbon. This was my first introduction […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor As a science writer, people often ask me which came first: my passion for chemistry or my love of words and language. I never have a good answer – these things come about organically, so to speak – but I’d like to point out that the two worlds aren’t […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor In my last post, I discussed how chemistry is the key to nanotechnology, a hot new field that’s promising to improve everything from smart phones to health care. I also mentioned that nano-sized particles are smaller than the wavelengths of light, which makes it maddeningly difficult to “see” what’s […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor Chemistry stories are inherently boring. At least, that’s how they’re often seen by the editors I pitch to. The producer of a prominent science news program once told me that every good chemistry story is really about either biology or physics. To me it always seemed kind of unfair […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor When people think of chemistry, they generally picture scientists in sterile laboratories creating chemicals that have never been seen before – nothing much ‘natural’ about that. But if you read my last post for this blog, you’ll know that I have a hard time finding a qualitative difference between […]
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