All Culture and people articles – Page 82
-
-
ReviewIngredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put In Us and On Us
George Zaidan’s first book sets out to disentangle the confusing – and often conflicting – advice surrounding everyday items from processed food to sunscreen and beyond.
-
PodcastIngredients by George Zaidan – Book club
We discuss George Zaidan’s Ingredients, a book that promises to make chemistry more fun than Hogwarts
-
NewsAnother US researcher charged with lying about Chinese ties
Physicist faces 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding West Virginia University while secretly working for Chinese talent programme
-
FeatureThe Middle East’s synchrotron is open Sesame
How difficult is it to build a world-class research facility in the Middle East? Kit Chapman investigates
-
OpinionZhenan Bao: 'We just had to dream big'
The flexible electronics maven talks about science’s biggest problem, orchids and Campbell’s chicken noodle soup
-
-
ReviewThe Universe: A Travel Guide
This book covers every inch of our known universe, from planets and their moons, to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, exoplanets, stellar objects and the galaxies beyond
-
BusinessGetting ideas across
In a diverse industry like chemicals, we need to make sure we’re open to learning from unexpected angles.
-
NewsUniversities prepare for new normal as pandemic forces UK to shut down for three weeks
Labs and lectures wound up as students and staff are left anxious about their futures
-
OpinionTime for industry to show its humanity
Companies need to demonstrate community spirit in the face of the coronavirus pandemic
-
ReviewTraveling with the Atom: A Scientific Guide to Europe and Beyond
Use this book to plot visits across Europe to the homesteads, graveyards, laboratories, apartments, abbeys and castles of your chemistry heroes
-
ArticlePredatory journals’ reviewers mostly junior researchers from developing countries
The few scientists conducting peer review for predatory publishers are often of young academic age and come from lower-income regions
-
ReviewFilm: Radioactive
Based on a graphic novel, this film is both a profile of Marie Curie and a celebration of her discovery, the phenomenon of radioactivity
-
NewsItalian researchers fear long-lasting harm to science from coronavirus lockdown
With the entire population isolated and universities closed research has been severely curtailed
-
-
ResearchPorous hydrogel cleans dirt and grime from Jackson Pollock masterpieces
Twin-chain polymer gel can safely removes grime from contemporary artworks
-
OpinionWhy picking projects is like poker
Sometimes you prefer the high-risk, high-reward project to the ‘sure thing’
-
OpinionJimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements
USAF pilots flew into mushroom clouds to bring back samples that turned out to contain new elements – one of them didn’t make it home
-
ReviewRebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun
An absorbing read about the history of our investigation of the sun and the scientists who made breakthrough discoveries