All Culture and people articles – Page 71
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OpinionShankar Balasubramanian: ‘All chemists can cook, right?’
The sequencing pioneer on endurance, creativity and an unexpected question from Prince William
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BusinessEliminating sticky situations with Adaptive Surface Technologies
The company’s multi-purpose coating concept can increase the fuel efficiency of ships and reduce the risk of infection in hospitals
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PuzzleFebruary 2020 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the February 2020 print issue of Chemistry World
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Business3M slashes 1500 jobs globally
Reduction adds to 2000 layoffs announced in April, and is intended to save the company $110–120 million annually
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OpinionThe hunt for a killer stalking vapers
Vaping deaths in the US became a whodunnit as chemistry was called upon to track down the culprit
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PodcastYou Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane – Book club
We talk about Janelle Shane’s dive into the depths of AI weirdness
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ReviewYou Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place
From giraffes to strange pickup lines, this delightful and often laugh-out-loud book will help anyone understand AI better
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NewsResearchers love their jobs but toxic competition and publishing pressures take their toll
Largest survey of its kind finds research culture is struggling – results that surprise few
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OpinionScience can’t fix Whitehall on its own
There seems to be a genuine effort to put science at the heart of the UK’s government but this comes with risks as well as rewards
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OpinionReviewing performance reviews
Assessing the value of researchers’ work is hard, but there are some easy ideas to avoid
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OpinionEllie Knaggs and tetrahedral carbon
Ellie Knaggs’ claim to be the first to use x-rays to prove carbon’s tetrahedral bonding in molecules has been overlooked, finds Andy Extance
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OpinionKrzysztof Matyjaszewski: 'In science, one needs to have a vision'
The polymerisation guru on taking work on honeymoon, the softest snow in the States and his favourite restaurant
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ReviewThe Life Scientific: Inventors
From the geneticist who cloned Dolly the sheep to the inventor of the battery bag, this book delves into the lives and ambitions of Britain’s trailblazing scientists
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NewsPlane shot down by Iran had dozens of Canadian scientists on board
Canadian academic community mourns the deaths of students and colleagues
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FeaturePolly Arnold’s diversity of interests
Kit Chapman asks the champion of actinide chemistry and diversity in science what comes next as she starts her new role at a US national lab
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ReviewScience in Moscow: Memorials of a Research Empire
A book cataloguing the monuments to Russia’s scientific past
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NewsHas the chemistry Nobel prize really become the biology prize?
Researchers digging into the data call for honesty and transparency on how the prize has changed over the years
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OpinionTwenty twenty vision
The new year brings changes to how we include and reflect our community