All articles by Nina Notman
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FeatureHow tyres are turning green
As the shift to using renewable and recycled materials in car tyres accelerates, Nina Notman talks to the manufacturers driving the change
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FeatureThe undergraduate lab practical transformation
Nina Notman speaks to the educators leading the charge to revamp how university students learn in the laboratory
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FeatureIs DNA the future of digital data storage?
DNA is being explored as a long-term solution to preserving digital information for future generations. Nina Notman reports
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FeatureOne of these vials is contaminated with nanoplastics. Chemistry can tell us which one
Nina Notman talks to the scientists finding where nanoplastics come from and where they end up
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FeatureThe oceans’ climate challenge
Nina Notman speaks to the researchers unpicking the many ways the climate crisis is impacting our oceans – and vice versa
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FeatureTesting times for tuberculosis
Nina Notman takes a look at the recent and upcoming diagnostic and screening innovations aiming to drive down the incidence of tuberculosis globally
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FeatureMedical uses for silk
Nina Notman speaks to the researchers exploring medical applications for silkworm silk
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FeatureHow to prepare for a lab catastrophe
Nina Notman looks at steps scientists can take to better protect the content of their labs from floods, fires and other disasters
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FeatureThe race to build a base on the moon
Nina Notman talks to scientists helping to return humans to the moon – for good this time
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FeatureEditing the structure of molecules
Nina Notman meets the chemists expanding the toolbox of reactions capable of adding, deleting and switching single atoms in rings at the heart of organic molecules
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FeatureThe smell of history
Nina Notman sniffs out chemistry’s role in uncovering, documenting and recreating the scents of the past
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FeatureThe diamond synthesisers
Nina Notman takes a whistle-stop tour of the synthetic diamond industry and learns about some of the applications its lab-grown diamonds are being used for
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FeatureCan we clean Covid from the air around us?
Nina Notman talks to the experts about what is needed to remove pollutants and even infectious diseases from the air inside our homes, schools and offices
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Feature3D printing adds another dimension
Nina Notman learns how 4D printing is opening the door to unique smart materials whose applications may only be limited by our imaginations
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CareersMaking research environments more inclusive to deaf and hard of hearing students
Todd Pagano helps open up the world of chemistry for students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
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FeatureA decade of CAR-T cell therapy
Nina Notman looks at the revolutionary treatment already taking on cancer, now aiming for wider use
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FeatureDrilling deep to discover the secrets of the mantle
Nina Notman hears from the scientists trying to pierce the Earth’s crust below the seafloor to learn more about our home planet
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FeatureThe science of breast milk and baby formula
Nina Notman reveals how breast milk research is inspiring a new generation of infant formulas and opening the door to therapeutic advances
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FeatureFour years of chemistry preprints
Nina Notman takes stock of how preprint severs have settled into the chemistry community
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CareersRallying to the chemical safety cause
How Matt Endean works to keep children safe in school chemistry laboratories