All History articles – Page 30
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ResearchShipwrecked beer from 1840s lives again
170-year-old beer recreated with help from chemists
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PodcastSodium thiopental
Once thought to extract the truth and now used to enact the ultimate punishment, this week’s compound is sodium thiopental
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OpinionDial chem for murder
Poisons may seem to be a murderer’s perfect accomplice, but chemists can always persuade them to betray their secrets, says Philip Ball
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FeatureAlchemy on the page
Books used by alchemists offer insights into the relationship between these early chemists and their texts. Philip Ball investigates
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OpinionFlashback: 1985 – a new society emerges
The Metals Society and the Institution of Metallurgists merged to form a new learned society
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OpinionA brave new word
Why did scientists endure, while sciencers perished? Philip Ball examines the quirks of science’s lexical legacy
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FeatureThe green molecule
From the observation that plants replenish oxygen in the air to artificial photosynthesis for making liquid fuel, Mike Sutton tells the story of the chemists fascinated by chlorophyll
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OpinionFlashback: 1970 – meeting the Chemical Notation Association
The UK chapter of the Chemical Notation Association met for the first time
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ResearchTomography allows ancient texts to rise from the ashes
Scroll from town destroyed in Vesuvius eruption over 2000 years ago deciphered
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FeatureFlowing rivers of mercury
Philip Ball investigates claims that the burial chamber of China’s first emperor contains rivers of shimmering mercury