All Culture and people articles – Page 125
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News
Royal Society appoints new foreign secretary
Chemist Richard Catlow will oversee the society’s international activities from November
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Opinion
Personal protective equipment must work for women
We need to make sure safety clothing fits both genders
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News
Support for stiffer sanctions for science fraud in US
Vast majority of the American public wants research fraud criminalised, with many supporting prison sentences
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Business
All part of the service
Simon Hirst, founder of contract research organisation Sygnature, is the 2016 Chemistry World entrepreneur of the year
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Opinion
Laplace’s calorimeter
Even a scientific giant reached the limits of his ability when it came to managing people in the wake of the French Revolution
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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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