All articles by Rachel Brazil – Page 5
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How to form a research collaboration
Five tips for success when partnering up in the name of science
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How to get your research published
Writing your first paper can be daunting: here are five top tips
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Combining homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
Can you make a catalyst that has the stability and recyclability of a heterogeneous one with the selectivity of a homogeneous one? Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists finding out
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How to work in another country
Five tips for getting the most out of moving to a lab in a new land
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Illuminating manuscript treasures
Rachel Brazil takes a look at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s illuminated manuscripts and learns their scientific stories
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Phase to phase
Chemists are finding fascinating phase-change phenomena, discovers Rachel Brazil
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Video games are enabling discovery
Gamification is harnessing an untapped army of citizen scientists
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The proteins of touch
Our sense of touch and balance is deeply ingrained in our experiences, but what are the chemical processes that make it work? Rachel Brazil investigates
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'How pragmatic is it to be a blind scientist?’
Mona Minkara on not letting loss of vision end her science ambitions
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Raiders of the lost pigments
The old sculptures in museums have lost their original colour, but chemistry can help us discover how they used to look
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Time to lose chemistry’s subdisciplines?
Organic, inorganic and physical – do they mean anything in modern chemistry?
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Drugging the epigenome
Drugs that change how your genes are switched on or off could change how we treat many diseases, as Rachel Brazil discovers
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Refugee scientists
Rachel Brazil looks at schemes to help refugee scientists in the past, present and future