All Culture and people articles – Page 151
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Research
Yongmei Zheng: Spider silk and butterfly wings
Yongmei Zheng talks to Jennifer Newton about materials than can manipulate water droplets
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News
US labs urged to develop stronger ‘culture of safety’
Report looks at new ways to prevent lethal accidents in chemistry labs
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Feature
The worldwide chemist
Bea Perks profiles Martyn Poliakoff, the internet’s favourite ‘mad professor’
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Opinion
The fascinating in the familiar
A simple droplet shows that there are still plenty of puzzles to ponder in everyday observations, says Philip Ball
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News
Scientists and university officials caught up in China’s anti-corruption drive
Rising funding for universities may be fuelling corruption, while top bosses’ fiefdoms makes them hard to catch
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Opinion
Flashback: 2004 – the National Science Learning Centre
Plans were laid for a new network of science learning centres to be established across the UK
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Feature
Chemists at war
The first world war saw chemistry play a vital role – and in more than just poison gas. Mike Sutton looks back
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Careers
To detect and defend
Rebecca Hopkins tells Philip Robinson about her life and work as a scientist in the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
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News
Former Royal Society of Chemistry president Lord Lewis dies
Jack Lewis, inorganic chemist and member of the House of Lords, has died aged 86
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Opinion
The creative stimulus
Innovative thinking may be difficult to turn on at will, but there are many ways to prepare for inspiration, says Mark Peplow
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Research
Aaron Wheeler: Algae-on-a-chip
Aaron Wheeler talks to Harriet Brewerton about bringing the energy and microfluidics communities together
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Emily Weiss: Tuneable illumination
Emily Weiss tells Guy Jones how quantum dots are the perfect combination of molecular chromophores and bulk semiconductors