All Culture and people articles – Page 22
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News
Nobel laureate speaks of experiencing ‘male discrimination’ at annual Lindau meeting
Kurt Wüthrich describes climate of meeting of Nobel laureates as hostile
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News
Research productivity is not a hostage to good safety in the lab
No decline discovered in the output of University of California chemistry labs following tighter safety rules after deadly accident in 2009
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Careers
Working at the forefront of AI
Petrina Kamya’s curiosity has led her across sectors to become a leader in drug discovery
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Business
Recycling plastic with enzymes
Carbios can return even hard-to-recycle polyester fibres and textiles to their constituent monomers
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News
Share of women in US government Stem jobs has been static since 2005
Women are underrepresented in US federal Stem jobs and leave these posts at a higher rate than men, but more female supervisors might help
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Opinion
How van der Waals first linked liquids and gases
150 years ago, a doctoral thesis changed our understanding of matter
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News
Nobel nominations analysis reveals factors behind who won in the past
Study suggests that human influences and organised behaviour played a greater role than numbers of nominations
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News
Report highlights job insecurity and mental health strain in academia
Baseline pay and conditions compare well to other sectors for permanent staff
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Careers
When will funders take action on PhD and postdoc conditions?
Campaigns in the UK, Ireland and Canada await announcements
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Research
Beer byproduct used as a binder in paintings during the Danish Golden Age
Scientists identify proteins from cereal species using mass spectrometry
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Opinion
Catalysing the clean-up of methamphetamine
Closing a meth lab is just the first step towards making it safe
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Careers
Giving technicians the recognition they deserve
Schemes such as the Technician Commitment are starting to address problems with authorship and career development
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Careers
Meet the first deaf, Black woman to earn a Stem doctorate
Amie Fornah Sankoh has persevered from failing primary school in Sierra Leone to gaining a biochemistry PhD in the US
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Opinion
Margaret Faul: ‘Stand for what you think is right’
The pharmaceutical executive on why chemistry clicked for her, and life as a female organic chemist in the drug industry