All Arts articles – Page 10
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PodcastIngredients by George Zaidan – Book club
We discuss George Zaidan’s Ingredients, a book that promises to make chemistry more fun than Hogwarts
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ReviewIngredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put In Us and On Us
George Zaidan’s first book sets out to disentangle the confusing – and often conflicting – advice surrounding everyday items from processed food to sunscreen and beyond.
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ReviewThe Universe: A Travel Guide
This book covers every inch of our known universe, from planets and their moons, to asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, exoplanets, stellar objects and the galaxies beyond
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ReviewTraveling with the Atom: A Scientific Guide to Europe and Beyond
Use this book to plot visits across Europe to the homesteads, graveyards, laboratories, apartments, abbeys and castles of your chemistry heroes
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ReviewFilm: Radioactive
Based on a graphic novel, this film is both a profile of Marie Curie and a celebration of her discovery, the phenomenon of radioactivity
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ResearchPorous hydrogel cleans dirt and grime from Jackson Pollock masterpieces
Twin-chain polymer gel can safely removes grime from contemporary artworks
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ReviewRebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun
An absorbing read about the history of our investigation of the sun and the scientists who made breakthrough discoveries
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ReviewFilm: Dark Waters
A film that charts lawyer Rob Billot’s two-decade battle to bring DuPont to account for illnesses of thousands of class action plaintiffs due to exposure to a toxic surfactant
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ReviewSay Why to Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take and Why We Get High
From discussing short- and long-term effects to drug mythbusting, this book is rich with easy-to-follow information about the effects recreational drugs can have on us and the risks associated with each of them
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PodcastSay Why to Drugs by Suzi Gage – Book club
We discuss Suzi Gage’s comprehensive look at the science behind recreational drugs – from caffeine to ketamine
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NewsModern dance about zebrafish brains wins 12th Dance your PhD prize
Annual award challenges scientists to communicate their doctoral research using interpretive dance
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ReviewScientifica Historica: How the World’s Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge
A book about books by veteran science communicator Brian Clegg
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ReviewNever Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
A mixture of anecdote, opinion and science from an author who turned her former addiction into the topic of her neurobiology research
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ReviewThe Fugitive Chemist: From a War Zone to Life-saving Research
A true story of perseverance, love and science
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ReviewYou Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place
From giraffes to strange pickup lines, this delightful and often laugh-out-loud book will help anyone understand AI better
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PodcastYou Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane – Book club
We talk about Janelle Shane’s dive into the depths of AI weirdness
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ReviewThe Life Scientific: Inventors
From the geneticist who cloned Dolly the sheep to the inventor of the battery bag, this book delves into the lives and ambitions of Britain’s trailblazing scientists
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ReviewScience in Moscow: Memorials of a Research Empire
A book cataloguing the monuments to Russia’s scientific past
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ReviewAntimony, Gold, and Jupiter’s Wolf: How the Elements Were Named
Accessible to chemists and non-chemists alike, this book traces the evolution of our understanding of the nature of matter itself