All Culture and people articles – Page 4
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Careers
Workplace support for menstruation and menopause
The chemical industry and universities are doing more to give chemists what they need to manage their menstrual health
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Feature
Managing the menopause
The end of ovulation will affect almost all women, but current treatments could be improved. Rachel Brazil reports on the efforts to find a better solution
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Opinion
Robyn Norton: ‘We needed to make sure that women were included’
The pioneering global health researcher on the importance of including women in medical research, face-to-face networking and kindness
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Careers
Time off for menstruation is a good idea. Period.
Menstrual leave can improve working conditions for all employees
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Opinion
The women-led health projects doing things differently
Innovative approaches to awareness and participation
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Opinion
How feminist bioethics can improve women’s health
From correcting research imbalances to placing value on lived experiences
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Careers
How Bathabile Ramalapa is making a place for chemistry in health innovation
The award-winning scientist is solving health problems in the global south and inspiring other girls to follow suit
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Puzzle
Cryptic chemistry crossword #086
From Italian composers to chemical constants, can you crack the grid of this cryptic crossword puzzle?
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Puzzle
Chemistry wordoku #094
Take a deep dive into this puzzle to find the hidden shellfish compound
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Puzzle
Quick chemistry crossword #086
This quick crossword has atmosphere, auks, and several acids. Can you solve it?
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Research
Snuff tube residues push back date of oldest hallucinogen use in Peruvian Andes
Chemical analysis reveals traces of a number of psychoactive compounds thought to have been used to secure leaders’ status
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Careers
The All-Ireland Network for Gender Equality in Chemistry is going for gold
Sharing best practices across chemistry departments to create better working environments and get Athena Swan accreditation
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News
Under legal pressure American Chemical Society ends diversity programme
The society is replacing its 30-year-old Scholars Program for minorities with a larger one that does not consider race
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Opinion
Way’s double silicates and what else he dug up from the soil
John Thomas Way’s practical advice also produced the first quantitative observations of ion exchange
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Puzzle
Quick chemistry crossword #085
Knowing scientists from Germany, Glasgow, Israel and the US will get you far in this quick crossword
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Careers
Cultural changes need to stop PhD students working for free
Top-down support is needed to stop exploitative PhD practices
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News
Food chemist takes top prize of annual Dance your PhD contest
Interpretive dance explains thesis on why chillis burn and menthol cools