All History articles – Page 3
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ResearchWorking towards an Australian First Nations periodic table
Zahra Khan finds out how a team of scholars is working with the Gadigal to develop a chart that celebrates Indigenous knowledge of the chemical elements
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OpinionExploring the origins of our chemical terms
A chemical by any other name would smell as sweet
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OpinionCelebrating 100 years of the Pauli exclusion principle
How a quantum view of electron states enabled us to understand the stability of matter
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OpinionWood’s metal and the evolution of fusible alloys
Invented by American dentist Barnabas Wood (1819–1875), whose life is shrouded in mystery
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OpinionSydney Young and his evaporative fractionator
Developments in distillation find us in good spirits
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OpinionLangley’s bolometer and the importance of ‘stamp collecting’
Mapping a spectrum of developments
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NewsOnline archive of Humphry Davy’s notebooks opens to the public
Historic collection is the result of a five-year long citizen science project
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NewsUK launches £37m programme to uncover cultural heritage through chemistry
Funding will aid analysis of archaeological materials and preservation of artwork
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NewsRoyal Society releases hundreds of historic peer-review reports to the public
Archive includes Dorothy Hodgkin’s review of an early Crick and Watson paper on the structure of DNA
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OpinionFermi’s questions and the importance of estimation
Knowing how to approximate the unknown is a much undervalued skill
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OpinionHenninger and Le Bel’s fractionator and the importance of lab culture
An undercurrent of collaboration
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OpinionCelebrating 200 editions of Classic Kit
Andrea Sella shares his favourite experiences from delving into the history of lab equipment
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NewsArchaeological dig at Tycho Brahe’s island lab reveals some of his alchemical secrets
Analysis of what appears to be laboratory vessels shows elements Danish astronomer was working with
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OpinionHarmoinen’s inverter drives and a crucial step towards reducing energy consumption
For the 200th Classic Kit, Andrea Sella celebrates a crucial efficiency improvement for motors
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OpinionTriggering a nuclear chain reaction
How Leo Szilard’s concept emerged from a rich interchange of ideas across disciplinary silos
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ResearchPioneering preservative removal from ancient Greek ship allows accurate dating
Extraction of polyethylene glycol from ship’s wood enables radiocarbon recalibration
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OpinionThere’s more to alchemy than its mystical nature
It was crucial to the development of chemistry