All Culture and people articles – Page 70
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ResearchUnlocking geological time capsules with analytical chemistry
Blavatnik award winner Kirsty Penkman discusses her research developing techniques to date fossils
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OpinionThe indomitable Toshiko Mayeda
Matthew Shindell traces one female scientist’s story from an internment camp to studying the chemistry of the solar system
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PodcastSay Why to Drugs by Suzi Gage – Book club
We discuss Suzi Gage’s comprehensive look at the science behind recreational drugs – from caffeine to ketamine
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ReviewSay Why to Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take and Why We Get High
From discussing short- and long-term effects to drug mythbusting, this book is rich with easy-to-follow information about the effects recreational drugs can have on us and the risks associated with each of them
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OpinionNeil Garg: ‘My brain is always turning’
The synthetic chemist and communicator on parenting and putting on a show
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OpinionNow’s not the time to tiptoe around the issues on science and immigration
It’s time to speak out amid increasing nationalism, as science is a global and collaborative enterprise
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NewsQuestionable research practices are hurting junior researchers
Survey finds that the careers of nearly a third of PhD students and postdocs are marred by bad experiences
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NewsModern dance about zebrafish brains wins 12th Dance your PhD prize
Annual award challenges scientists to communicate their doctoral research using interpretive dance
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ReviewScientifica Historica: How the World’s Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge
A book about books by veteran science communicator Brian Clegg
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NewsIndustry and academic chemistry titan John Cadogan dies
Past president of the Royal Society of Chemistry passes away aged 89
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ReviewNever Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
A mixture of anecdote, opinion and science from an author who turned her former addiction into the topic of her neurobiology research
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OpinionThe non-romantic history of Valentine’s Meat Juice
If ‘meat juice’ be the food of love, the appetite may sicken, and so die
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NewsOld mattresses and a little chemistry help Syrian refugees grow food in the desert
University of Sheffield scientists provide the spark to get displaced victims of Syria’s civil war growing their own
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RSCRighting science’s recognition wrongs
Carbon’s tetrahedral bonding pattern is a chemistry cornerstone, but few can name the scientist who provided experimental proof for the concept
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OpinionTheodora Greene’s protecting groups
Katrina Krämer uncovers the woman behind the book on every organic chemist’s shelf
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ReviewThe Fugitive Chemist: From a War Zone to Life-saving Research
A true story of perseverance, love and science