All Arts articles – Page 19
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News
The world's biggest periodic table (probably)
Spanish university creates giant tribute to Mendeleev’s genius
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Review
The death of expertise: the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters
Why are people getting sick of experts?
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Review
Electricity: the spark of life
The Wellcome collection’s exhibition explores the history of all things electrical
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Review
Your brain is a time machine: the neuroscience and physics of time
A book for people with more than a passing interest in time
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How the British Library preserves ancient manuscripts
Acidity will destroy paper without conservation and careful handling
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Review
Toxic exposures: mustard gas and the health consequences of world war II in the United States
An insight into the murky world of chemical warfare
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News
The great beauty of chemistry
Heritage science is growing fast and Rocco Mazzeo wants more chemists to chip in
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Feature
200 years of Gmelin’s handbook
2017 marks 200 years since Leopold Gmelin first published his influential handbook – and it’s still going strong, as Mike Sutton discovers
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Research
Fractal crystals win fashion design contest
Organic compounds form peculiar geometric crystals due to inefficient molecular stacking
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Review
A tale of seven scientists and a new philosophy of science
Eric Scerri proposes that science has evolved like a biological organism rather than in small steps or giant leaps
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Feature
Raiders of the lost pigments
The old sculptures in museums have lost their original colour, but chemistry can help us discover how they used to look
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Review
Bring back the king: the new science of de-extinction
How and why could scientists resurrect long-dead species?
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Review
DNA: the great book of life from Mendel to genomics
This year, Rome’s exhibition palace pays tribute to all things genetics
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Research
X-ray fluorescence reveals van Eyck’s original colours
Elemental imaging shows alterations to famous Ghent Altarpiece by the van Eyck brothers
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Review
Outbreak! 50 tales of epidemics that terrorized the world
A tour of history’s most devastating diseases