All Culture and people articles – Page 10
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Research
Combining expertise to develop remote-controlled nanomaterials
Beatriz Pelaz explains how her research tackles bionanomaterials from multiple angles
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Research
Controversy over ancient Chinese bronze chemistry
Study suggests bronze was made from alloys rather than pure metals, but experts remain unconvinced
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News
Parenting takes a heavy toll on the careers of female academics in North America
Women more likely to report that caring for children has hurt their career than men
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Opinion
Robert Mokaya: ‘I have been lucky to open a lot of doors’
The innovative materials chemist on a love of making things and opening doors for others
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Opinion
James Lovelock, a gentleman scientist
Philip Ball reflects on the legacy of the creator of the Gaia hypothesis, who has died aged 103
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Opinion
Period of discovery
Chemical space contained sufficient information to formulate the periodic system 25 years before Mendeleev
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Opinion
Forgotten women in chemistry
There’s much more to do to fully understand and celebrate the historical contributions of female chemists
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Opinion
Betty Wright Harris’s explosive career
Hayley Bennett tells the story of a Black chemist who studied energetic materials – and ways to detect them
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Careers
PhD students don’t need second jobs – they need paying above minimum wage
Recommended minimum stipends for UK-based PhDs failed to match inflation since 2005, exacerbating the current cost-of-living crisis
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Careers
The nickel crystal that catalysed collaboration
An apparent scooping turned into something much more valuable
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Careers
Scientific success is built on failure
Things going wrong doesn’t mean that you’re inadequate
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Careers
Making interviews and workplaces fully accessible
Exploring the support available to disabled jobseekers and their employers
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Opinion
Can scientists communicate better with comedy?
It’s no joke: scientists and comedians are collaborating to share research
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Opinion
Letters: July 2022
Readers call for international cooperation, near-miss reporting and less emphasis on deriving equations
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Opinion
Callendar’s platinum thermometer
Solving the hot topic of accurate and reproducible temperature measurement
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News
Botanists, chemists and historians come together to recreate ancient alchemy of making mercury
Fourth century BC alchemical methods for obtaining metallic mercury from the mineral cinnabar revisited
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News
Chemistry Nobel laureate Robert Curl dies at 88
Curl’s passing means that all three scientists who won the 1996 chemistry Nobel prize for discovering fullerenes are gone
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Business
Measuring biomolecules’ mass with light
Refeyn’s mass photometry is a new addition to the bioanalytical toolkit