All Arts articles – Page 16
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ReviewAt Least Know This: Essential science to enhance your life
Author Guy Harrison unpicks the complex answers to simple questions
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ResearchIron-trapping nanoparticles could help preserve the Mary Rose
Removing iron from the 16th century shipwreck’s wooden structures can halt the formation of sulfuric acid
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ReviewX and Why: The rules of attraction: why gender still matters
Megan McGregor reviews a book that sets out to explain the unescapable role gender has in our lives
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ReviewExhibition: Life at the Edges
The latest exhibition at Dublin’s Science Gallery explores life in the harshest environments, on Earth and beyond
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PodcastThe Beautiful Cure by Daniel Davis – Book club
Immunologist Daniel Davis reveals the complexities of the human immune system
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ReviewThe Beautiful Cure: Harnessing your body's natural defences
The human body’s response to disease is fiendishly complex but endlessly fascinating
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ResearchMass spectrometry and machine learning find fake Robert Burns’ manuscripts
Chemical fingerprinting distinguishes famous Scottish poet’s 200-year-old letters from contemporary forgeries
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ReviewAll that remains: a life in death
Forensic anthropologist Sue black shares her fascination with anatomy and determination to help the loved ones of those that die
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ReviewThe space barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the quest to colonize the cosmos
A book that aims to take readers into the lives and minds of two of the most powerful men in the world
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OpinionPreserving the Naica Cave of Crystals
Visitors are changing the chemistry of a natural wonder of the world
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ReviewUnthinkable: an extraordinary journey through the world’s strangest brains
A book that tells the stories of people who experience reality in extraordinary ways
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NewsHobby chemists fall foul of YouTube's content purge
Platform’s removal of home experiments and synthesis tutorial videos worries hobby chemists
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ReviewBeyond weird: why everything you thought you knew about quantum physics is different
Philip Ball sets himself the task of explaining quantum mechanics
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FeatureThe art of conservation
The Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles is developing innovative new approaches to art conservation. Fiona Case paid them a visit
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ReviewBurning planet: the story of fire through time
Andrew C Scott’s book charts the natural history of wildfire and its ability to provide clues to events on Earth
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ReviewForgotten women: the scientists
Philippa Matthews reviews a book looking to uncover the lost histories of women whose achievements have been left out of the textbooks
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ReviewExhibition: Somewhere in between
Emma Stoye reviews the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition, which promises immersive, science-inspired art installations
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ReviewConjuring the universe: the origins of the laws of nature
Peter Atkins’ latest book is an ’elegant love letter’ to the simplicity and beauty of the mathematics that govern our universe
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ResearchHydrogel saves precious artwork to reveal hidden ‘Michelangelo’ message
New non-invasive technique safely removes sticky tape without damaging works of art
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ReviewThe many lives of carbon
Dag Olav Hessen leaves no stone - or diamond - unturned in his account of element six