All articles by Philip Ball – Page 5
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OpinionFrances Arnold’s retraction and the case for slow science
Frances Arnold’s masterful retraction highlights the problems with publication-driven science
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NewsHas the chemistry Nobel prize really become the biology prize?
Researchers digging into the data call for honesty and transparency on how the prize has changed over the years
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ResearchLondinium Romans’ blood lead levels so high they may have lowered birth rates
Heavy metal’s levels were more than 70 times higher than pre-Roman populations
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OpinionBreaking the carbon cycle
Focusing on new technologies to tackle climate change could allow policymakers to dodge their own responsibilities
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OpinionChemical computers question the logic of life
Circuits of chemicals could carry out calculations
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ResearchAre synthetic chemists out of a job as AI meets automation?
Platform can weigh up a synthetic route, plan it and then carry out it
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OpinionMachine-learning Mendeleevs have rediscovered the periodic table
Exposing new dimensions in the relationships between elements
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ResearchAFM captures changing structures of charged molecules
Technique that adds electrons one by one could enable new molecules to be synthesised by atomic manipulation
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FeaturePrimo Levi and the other periodic table
Author and chemist Primo Levi was born 100 years ago this July. Philip Ball looks at his chemical and literary legacy – including his books The Periodic Table and If This Is a Man
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OpinionWhat happens when life has a limited vocabulary?
The longest synthetic genome shows us life is more complicated than just learning your AGCs
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ReviewSuperheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman has been on a journey around the world to discover how new elements are made
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OpinionStorytelling matters in science
Communicating ideas needs a narrative to get the point across
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OpinionHow old is the Turin Shroud?
New evidence has reopened the debate on radiocarbon dating of the relic
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ResearchHopes raised of a ‘super-table’ to end periodic table disputes
Mathematical analysis could help answer where hydrogen or lanthanum should sit on the table
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ResearchLeap forward for molecular computing as DNA executes six-bit algorithms
Computer made from DNA strands can recognise palindromes, copy and sort data, and perform random walks
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OpinionDoes science need democracy to flourish?
Evidence shows good work can survive even the harshest regimes
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OpinionWhose periodic table is it anyway?
Dmitri Mendeleev’s table was not the first – but it’s the one that matters