All Culture and people articles – Page 41
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Careers
Overcoming a severe lab accident to become a chief scientist
Thea Ekins-Coward’s life changed in an instant; several years later, she has returned to science and is about to become a mum
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Opinion
PC Ray: A genius chemist who dreamed of a modern India
Dinsa Sachan re-tells the story of the inorganic chemist who put Indian chemistry on the map
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Opinion
Letters: March 2022
Readers produce a model view of June Lindsay’s work, and describe a creative use of parafilm
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News
US ends anti-espionage China Initiative
While slated trials will continue, future investigations will consider more options before criminal prosecution
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Opinion
Scents and sentimentality
Deprived of familiar lab odours, Derek Lowe indulges in some nasal nostalgia
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Opinion
Najat Saliba: ‘The Beirut explosion is a crime like no other’
The atmospheric chemist who dared to dream big and returned home to Beirut to become an environmental activist
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Opinion
We need our simple symbols, but machines might not
Will the curly arrow still be with us in another 100 years?
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Opinion
Living through Covid-19
Many researchers are now feeling the effects of additional emotional burdens
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News
American Chemical Society’s analysis of diversity in its journals confirms an ‘imbalance’
Among journal authors, reviewers and editors, men outnumber women by at least two-to-one
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Opinion
The different shades of sexist science
How supposedly scientific arguments for the inferiority of women support gender discrimination
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Opinion
Fixing chemistry’s branding problem
Engaging with others to improve the central science’s image
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Opinion
A century of curly arrows
Celebrating the simple symbols that – along with their straight counterparts – encapsulate complex chemical behaviours
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Careers
Driven to succeed in automotive chemistry
Ashley Ogden is the only female chemist and innovator at LINE-X, and hopes to inspire more women and girls to follow her into Stem
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Research
Archaeometric study confirms ancient Greeks used gypsum in white Attic vases
Analysis of the Perseus crater from Agrigento identifies key constituents used in its decoration
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Opinion
Because it isn’t there
Why do chemists do what they do? The underlying philosophy for many of us is the same as it has been for centuries
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Podcast
Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces by Laurie Winkless – Book club
Delving into the mysterious science of surfaces