All People articles – Page 19
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Research
Translating snail venom research from beach to bench and beyond
Meet Mandë Holford, an interdisciplinary scientist following tangents that arise when exploring the molecular-level workings of venom peptides
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News
French mathematician returns as interim European Research Council president
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon takes the reins after previous head’s acrimonious departure
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Opinion
Janine Cossy: ‘Negative results are more important’
The synthetic chemist on champagne, art and living in Paris
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Fung Fun Man
An education technology guru in Singapore finds himself inundated with requests for advice and invitations to speak since the pandemic hit
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Opinion
Ghanaian biochemistry TV star Marian Addy
Marian Addy was the first female science professor in Ghana, who studied herbal medicine – and was a TV star
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Martyn Coles
In New Zealand, where there are close to zero active cases of Covid-19, labs have reopened with no distancing rules
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Research
How the products of fire control the formation of snow
Nadine Borduas-Dedekind brings an organic chemist’s arrow-pushing insight to reactions in the atmosphere
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Omar Farha
An MOF pioneer has just reopened his lab at Northwestern University after more than two months, with new social distancing precautions
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: John Woodland
A medicinal chemist in South Africa sees his research ‘ground to a halt’ and worries about restrictions being lifted as infections are rising
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Fiona Scott
A freshly-minted PhD talks about the challenges of life and job-hunting during a pandemic
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Research
Beautiful molecules ring up with a purpose
How Stephen Goldup used his experience in organic synthesis to find a supramolecular niche
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News
More support needed at US universities to stop minorities leaving science
University association issues guidance to help improve Stem faculty diversity
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Dave Berkowitz
The new director of NSF’s chemistry division has started his job at a very challenging time
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Opinion
Barbara Low, penicillin and the protein pi helix
Mike Sutton celebrates the remarkable career of a female crystallographer, once mistaken for the tea-lady
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News
Mentorship ‘strongly predicts’ protégé success in the sciences
Researchers whose mentors later win science prizes are two- to four times more likely to go on to have ‘superstar’ careers
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Business
Sidestepping the efficiency limits of solar power with Cambridge Photon Technology
Optical layer with quantum dots and organic semiconductors could raise power output by up to 20%
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Lourival Possani
A biochemist in Mexico may retire if government funding for research dries up
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Liane Rossi
The head of a nanomaterials and catalysis lab at the University of São Paulo says the political situation in Brazil is ‘as bad as the virus’
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Lee Cronin
A University of Glasgow chemist finds that it’s no easy task to maintain a research group of about 70 during a pandemic that’s closed your lab