RSC Books Blog

The Case of the Poisonous Socks author, Professor William Brock, will be discussing stories from his book and other writings at The Chemistry Centre, London on Thursday 3rd May at 6.30pm.

Listen to anecdotal tales from the history of 19th and 20th century chemistry, including how William Crookes solved the mystery of how brightly coloured socks were causing the feet of unfortunate wearers to swell, and find out why the role chemistry in society is so important.

Want to attend? To book your place click here 

Can’t make it? This lecture will be broadcast live on The Reaction website.

Read more tales from chemistry in The Case of the Poisonous Socks.

After a successful week in California, the RSC Roadshow moves east to Illinois and Wisconsin where we will be visiting:

April 23rd – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
April 24th – Northwestern University
April 25th – University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 26th – University of Chicago

At each University, Books Commissioning Editor Merlin Fox will be on hand to show you RSC’s apps on mobile devices and talk about our newest books. Join him for lunch and debate the reading habits in the 21st Century. And find out more from Managing Editor May Copsey about the world of scholarly publishing, with tips on how to get published in high impact journals.

You can see tour photos on our Facebook Page and follow us on Twitter #RSC2012.

The tour will continue onto Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York – read more about our US Roadshows 2012.

As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic passes and the new museum for the Mary Rose  prepares to open in Portsmouth shipwrecks are once again in the limelight, but have you ever wondered how the treasures from sunken ships are preserved?

Find out what happens behind the scenes to preserve our histories in Conservation Science: Heritage Materials edited by Eric May, University of Portsmouth and Mark Jones, The Mary Rose Trust. Discover how it’s possible for the timber of a 500 year old ship like the Mary Rose and its cast bronze guns have survived.

Discover the treasures now!

The RSC US University Roadshow kicks off today at the University of California – Irvine. Over the week, we will be visiting four universities in California:

April 16th – University of California Irvine
April 17th – University of California Los Angeles
April 18th – University of California Santa Barbara
April 20th – University of California Berkeley

At each University, Books Commissioning Editors, Janet Freshwater and Merlin Fox will be on hand to show you RSC’s apps on mobile devices and talk about our newest books. Join them for lunch and debate the reading habits in the 21st Century. And find out more from Managing Editor Sarah Ruthven about the world of scholarly publishing, with tips on how to get published in high impact journals.

Read more about our US Roadshows 2012. 

You can also follow the RSC Roadshows on Twitter – just look for #RSC2012.

After California the tour will continue onto Illinois, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York – find out more about where we’ll be.

Being able to see inside the human body has transformed modern medicine. With many researchers seeking new biomedical imaging applications for patient screening, diagnosis and monitoring, clinical research and in the development of new therapeutic drugs, it’s hard to get a view of the field as a whole.

For April’s Book of the Month we’ve selected Biomedical Imaging: The Chemistry of Labels, Probes and Contrast Agents edited by Martin Braddock, AstraZeneca, to help those of you already working in or new to the field to find out more about developments in medical imaging. Let the experts from industry and academia show you the recent advances in biomedical imaging including the design and synthesis of contrast agents, optical imaging techniques and physical techniques.

Take a closer look at biomedical imaging – access the content now.

Want to know more about current research in Drug Discovery? See the RSC Drug Discovery Series for more titles.