All Culture and people articles – Page 120
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Opinion
Flashback: 1991 – Helen Sharman honoured
The UK’s first cosmonaut Helen Sharman was honoured at a House of Commons reception
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Opinion
Now you’re talking my language
Chemistry would be impossible without a hidden fluency that many of us don’t even realise we have, says Derek Lowe
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News
Hawaii lab explosion caused by static discharge
Investigation finds explosion that seriously injured postdoc was caused by static electricity, but also links the accident to safety failings
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Opinion
What's the point of synthesising the human genome?
A plan to build our genome from scratch should be challenged on its scientific merit, not whether it is creating life, argues Philip Ball
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News
Women’s safety clothing not fit for purpose
Union report finds ill-fitting clothing can harm research and safety
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Podcast
Sorting the Beef from the Bull by Richard Evershed – Book club
This month we discuss the ubiquitous nature of food fraud and its detection
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Careers
The offshore chemist
Catriona Gebbie talks to Nina Notman about life as the only analytical chemist on board a North Sea oil production platform
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Feature
Sulfate aerosols and the summer that wasn’t
After the Mount Tambora megavolcano erupted in 1815, the years that followed had weather that changed the world, as Mike Sutton explains
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Business
Adventures of an accidental entrepreneur
India needs to break out of its colonial mindset and tap into its innovative potential, says Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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News
Initiatives link refugee researchers with jobs in Europe
Aid for scientists displaced by Syrian civil war and other conflicts still piecemeal across the continent
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News
Scotland appoints new scientific adviser
Physicist Sheila Rowan will be the Scottish government’s first chief scientific adviser since December 2014