All articles by Nina Notman – Page 5

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    Going for gold

    2015-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman looks at attempts to reduce the environmental impacts of small-scale gold mining

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    Careers

    The race to equality

    2015-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman looks at the group and individual efforts to promote racial equality in academia

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    Feature

    Well-tempered chocolate

    2015-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman discovers that controlling crystal structures and emulsions is the key to good chocolate

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    A mile in their shoes

    2015-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman explores the options open to scientists looking to learn more about policymaking and the inner workings of government 

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    Feature

    Who reviews the reviews?

    2015-08-21T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman investigates the new alternatives being developed to replace peer review as we know it

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    The space junky

    2015-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Sending her experimental polymers into space was a career high for Lenore Rasmussen. But space is just one part of the story, Nina Notman finds

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    Show and tell

    2015-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman explores the performance-based communication competitions turning researchers into raconteurs

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    The kitchen chemist

    2015-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman finds nothing half-baked about the chemistry demonstrations that Stephen Ashworth whips up

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    Feature

    Imaging the future

    2015-04-24T00:00:00Z

    Doctors and pharmaceutical companies are beginning to open their eyes to the power of mass spectrometry imaging, finds Nina Notman

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    Careers

    The changing face of the PhD

    2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Universities in the UK are exploring the European approach of building a thesis from published papers, finds Nina Notman

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    It's a bloody business

    2015-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Determining the role drugs and poisons may have played in death is the responsibility of forensic toxicologists. Nina Notman reports

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    Careers

    The mothers of invention

    2015-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman profiles four researchers successfully balancing an academic career with family life

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    From screen to cell

    2015-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman finds out how liquid crystals are moving into the biotechnology and pharmaceutical toolbox

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    News

    US to restart chemical weapon neutralisation

    2015-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Remainder of US cold war chemical weapons set to be destroyed by 2023

  • Molecular diagram of Grubb's catalyst
    Podcast

    Grubbs catalyst

    2015-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman describes the dance of olefin metathesis, and how the tempo is set by Grubbs’ catalysts

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    Careers

    Picturing the past with mass spec

    2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Angela Lamb talks to Nina Notman about mastering isotope analysis to reconstruct ancient climates and cultures

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    Engineering the climate

    2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Could technologies that modify the Earth’s climate control systems help us limit global temperature rises? Nina Notman investigates

  • Isoniazid (isonicotinylhydrazine, INH) tuberculosis antibiotic, chemical structure
    Podcast

    Isoniazid

    2014-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman introduces isoniazid - an antibiotic key to treating tuberculosis

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    Podcast

    Cannabicyclohexanol

    2014-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Used to make synthetic cannabis, cannabicyclohexanol may be more risky than its non-synthetic counterpart

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    Let the molecules do the talking

    2014-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Using molecules rather than electronics or optics to send messages sounds far-fetched, but it’s common in nature. Nina Notman dials up some compounds and investigates