All History articles – Page 24
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Podcast
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach – Book club
The non-weapon technologies of war, from penis transplants to maggot therapy
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Opinion
Moseley’s spectrometer
Henry Moseley’s discovery changed the face of the periodic table before his untimely death
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Opinion
Flashback: 1976 – Meldola medal for Jeremy Morris
Jeremy Sanders received the Meldola Medal for his work in organic chemistry
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Podcast
Picric acid
A yellow dress, of the type worn by Jane Austen, sets Michael Freemantle exploring the chemistry of picric acid
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Opinion
Laplace’s calorimeter
Even a scientific giant reached the limits of his ability when it came to managing people in the wake of the French Revolution
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Opinion
Flashback: 1991 – Helen Sharman honoured
The UK’s first cosmonaut Helen Sharman was honoured at a House of Commons reception
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Podcast
Ammonium carbonate
Ever taken a whiff of smelling salts? For many years, the compound that contributed the pungent pong was ammonium carbonate
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Feature
Sulfate aerosols and the summer that wasn’t
After the Mount Tambora megavolcano erupted in 1815, the years that followed had weather that changed the world, as Mike Sutton explains
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Podcast
Methyl isocyanate
The 1984 accident at Bhopal, India, was the worst in the history of industrial chemistry. It involved a leak of methyl isocyanate
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Research
Tutankhamun’s burial dagger is ‘extra-terrestrial’ in origin
Analysis of the iron in the 3000-year-old mummy’s dagger suggests it originally came from a meteorite