All History articles – Page 36
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FeatureTargeting breast cancer
Tamoxifen has been treating breast cancer for 40 years, but few would have predicted how much this drug would contribute to saving lives, writes John Mann
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FeaturePreserving the Mary Rose
Jon Evans explores the chemistry stabilising the Tudor battleship for display
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ReviewOil in the environment: legacies and lessons of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
The trouble of oiled waters
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – new superheavy elements
Scientists in Russia and the US created elements 113 and 115
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OpinionDiplomacy through education
Jay Siegel is building the future of China’s Tianjin University by looking to its past – combining the academic cultures of east and west
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – counterfeit coinage
XRF spectrometry helped to sort real money from fool’s gold
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FeatureThe enduring controversy of the Turin Shroud
Far from putting the debate to rest, the dating of the Turin Shroud merely fuelled the controversy, as Richard Corfield discovers
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FeatureOrdering the elements
From the law of octaves to the periodic table as we know it, Mike Sutton traces how chemists put their house in order
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – new lab for Oxford
Researchers moved into Oxford University’s new Chemistry Research Laboratory
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FeatureCrystal clear
With the international year of crystallography upon us, Clare Sansom celebrates this important discipline
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