All Culture and people articles – Page 148
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News
US safety body says deadly West explosion 'preventable'
One year after ammonium nitrate explosion in Texas, Chemical Safety Board calls for new regulations to avert another incident
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Opinion
Flashback: 2004 – love for the library
The Royal Society of Chemistry gave members access to the Knovel library
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News
Para-xylene plants face uphill struggle for acceptance in China
Chemistry students come to defence of latest project’s safety but government and industry are failing to talk to the public about risk
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Careers
Changing phases
John Goodby has discovered new forms of matter and invented new materials. Helen Carmichael speaks to him about his career
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Feature
The sultan of synthesis
Phil Baran is spurring organic chemists to rethink how they make complex compounds, as Mark Peplow discovers
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News
Former chief executive of Royal Society of Chemistry dies
John Ruck Keene, whose career at the society spanned more than three decades, has passed away aged 97
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Review
Rocket girl: the story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s first female rocket scientist
Portrait of an unknown pioneer
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Opinion
Flashback: 2004 – soapy artworks
Soap was found to have formed on the surface of some oil paintings
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Opinion
'No sexuality please, we're scientists'
David Smith wonders why gay scientists seem to stay unseen, and asks does it matter?
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Opinion
A wide open competition
The Chemistry World science communication competition comes to fruition
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Review
Super separators
HPLC is used in many labs across the world to separate mixtures – but how do you separate different instruments? Elisabeth Jeffries reports
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Feature
Preserving the Mary Rose
Jon Evans explores the chemistry stabilising the Tudor battleship for display