All Culture and people articles – Page 107
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ReviewSoonish: Emerging technologies that will improve and/or ruin everything
A look at what could happen in the near-ish future
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FeatureBeer: Music to your taste buds
Andy Extance goes on tour in the UK and Belgium and compares the science behind the different processes used by craft and mass brewers
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PodcastChemistry by Weike Wang – Book club
First-time novelist Weike Wang takes us inside the mind of a Chinese American PhD student in Boston
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PuzzleDecember 2017 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the December 2017 print issue of Chemistry World
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ReviewAnd then you’re dead: what really happens if you get swallowed by a whale, are shot from a cannon, or go barreling over Niagara
Katrina Krämer reviews a collection of unusual, impossible and amusing death scenarios
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CareersThe European adviser
Elvira Fortunato shares how she found herself at the heart of EU science policy
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ReviewThe digital mind: how science is redefining humanity
What will be the consequences for society when brains and computers become indistinguishable?
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ReviewMass: the quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields
A book on quantum theory best approached by those with an elastic mind
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NewsGeorge de Hevesy’s chemistry Nobel medal up for auction
Collection of medals of radiochemist who hid two other Nobel laureates’ gold medals from the Nazis by dissolving them is expected to fetch £120,000
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BusinessIndia's science start-ups
A growing community of entrepreneurs are overcoming cultural and infrastructure barriers to commercialise their research
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ReviewThe genome factor: what the social genomics revolution reveals about ourselves, our history and the future
Exploring the use of genetics in social policy
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PodcastPolybutene
Kit Chapman discovers the compound that blighted Nixon’s second presidential inauguration by littering the route with dead pigeons
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PodcastThe Angry Chef by Anthony Warner – Book club
Do you crave a bigger slice of science in your dietary advice? Anthony Warner gets angry about bad science in the food sector
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ResearchSpaces can be useful
Truly functional MOFs are on the horizon but Susumu Kitagawa saw their potential when they were weak and idle
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ResearchAncient Egyptian uprisings triggered by volcanic eruptions
New evidence that changes in atmospheric chemistry caused social stresses and uprisings against the ruling elite