All Culture and people articles – Page 85
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NewsTom Welton named Royal Society of Chemistry’s next president
Head of chemistry at Imperial College and diversity champion will take the helm next year
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NewsDiscrimination and exclusion still a fact of life for LGBT+ scientists in UK
Survey reveals worrying levels of marginalisation but 70% of respondents think workplaces are improving
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RSCBe the change – Creating a positive workplace is up to us all
Report: Exploring the workplace for LGBT+ physical scientists
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FeaturePrimo Levi and the other periodic table
Author and chemist Primo Levi was born 100 years ago this July. Philip Ball looks at his chemical and literary legacy – including his books The Periodic Table and If This Is a Man
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ReviewThe Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
Drew Gwilliams reviews a book about how science should work, and what happens when it all goes wrong
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NewsJust six sexual harassment complaints were received by four of the US’s top funding bodies – over four years
Nasa, energy and agriculture departments and National Institutes of Health all received fewer than three complaints
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PodcastSuperheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit Chapman – Book club
Kit Chapman explores the strange, complex and downright confusing world of superheavy elements
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NewsUS air bases blamed for fluorinated pollutants on Japanese island
Diplomatic tensions between the two nations have been stoked by accusations that the US military has polluted Okinawa with PFAS chemicals
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NewsPolymer microballs and fatberg crystals top science photo competition
From virtual reality to citizen science, photo competition shows breadth of UK research
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ReviewSuperheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman has been on a journey around the world to discover how new elements are made
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ReviewThe Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
Megan McGregor reviews Paul Steinhardt’s book about the discovery of quasicrystals
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ResearchDawn of the atomic age helps carbon dating detect forged art
Spike in radiocarbon from nuclear bomb tests harnessed to detect fakes
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News50 years after sexism forced her out of chemistry Cheryl Dembe is graduating
University of Chicago recognises PhD research carried out a lifetime ago
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ResearchChinese gene-edited babies at higher risk of premature death
Loss of gene knocked-out by rogue geneticists found to be linked with higher mortality in human genome database
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FeatureIridium and the demise of the dinosaurs
Geochemical clues from the Cretaceous period reveal the final days of the terrible lizards
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NewsMisconduct not mistakes are the chief reason chemistry papers are retracted
Analysis prompts call for publishers to be more open about the reasons a paper is withdrawn