All Culture and people articles – Page 118
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NewsBitter feuding at Cochrane healthcare audit body paralyses organisation
One member has been expelled from the governing board while another four resign with accusations of pharmaceutical industry bias flying
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NewsArt conservation using saliva wins chemistry Ig Nobel
Prizes given for research that first makes you laugh and then make you think reward some more unlikely discoveries
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ReviewSuperhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental & Physical Ability
Meet the people at the peak of their powers
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NewsBlueprint outlined to add in ‘fail-safes’ for science publishing
Raft of measures suggested by prominent critics of science’s reproducibility problems
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OpinionThe physicist's guide to biology
How Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? overlooked the central science
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NewsChemist confused for French architect in Russian monument
Wikipedia blamed for depicting wrong person in tribute to the architects of St Petersburg
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OpinionCouette’s cell
Maurice Marie Alfred Couette, French physicist (1858-1943) and pioneer in fluid dynamics
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PuzzleOn the spot: Breathe easy
An alarm is going off in an NMR lab as you walk by. What would you do?
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PuzzleSeptember 2018 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the September 2018 print issue of Chemistry World
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NewsDeportations on the back of consumer genetic tests worry scientists
Canada’s border enforcement agency appears to be using genetic tests and DNA ancestry sites to determine country of origin for would-be deportees
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ReviewExhibition: The Future Starts Here
A look at the technology that challenges us to change the future
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OpinionBrute force and ignorance
It’s time for academia to get with the project plan and fail faster
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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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ResearchLights – camera – catalysis!
Like thousands of chemists worldwide, Bert Weckhuysen is a keen photographer. More unusually, however, he has found a way to bring his hobby and his research together
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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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ResearchFatty acid residues reveal impact of climate change on ancient farming community
Lipid biomarkers help track an extended period of drought that brought societal changes to a Neolithic settlement
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OpinionWanted: chemistry’s next superstar
The drop in chemistry undergraduates highlights the need for more inspirational scientists