All Culture and people articles – Page 68
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Feature2020: the year the world changed
Andy Extance discovers how scientists around the world have responded to the pandemic, working on solutions from drugs and vaccines to hand sanitiser and PPE
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BusinessOxford Biotrans makes its grapefruit compound out of oranges
Using their patented enzymes, Oxford Biotrans’ mission is to create new routes to useful chemicals – starting with their natural-grade food and fragrance products
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OpinionStirring in my sleep
Cut off from the lab after 40 years, Derek Lowe returns to the bench in his dreams
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ResearchMission accomplished for scientist who set out to bring astrobiology to Portugal
Zita Martins discusses her work searching for molecules related to the origin of life
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OpinionDisabled scientists excluded from the lab
Inaccessibility continues to push disabled researchers out of science
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OpinionBerthelot’s bomb calorimeter
The romantic life of the man who measured the heat of combustion
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ReviewBillion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food
A perceptive account of what might be the the food industry’s next big thing: lab-grown meat
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OpinionA common goal
A commitment to equality unites the chemical societies that make up the Commonwealth Chemistry community
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OpinionLetters: December 2020
Readers muse on thermal hazard data, and ask for help with an embroidered periodic table
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PuzzleDecember 2020 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the December 2020 print issue of Chemistry World
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ReviewSticking Together: The Science of Adhesion
This book will answer everything you ever wanted to know about how things stick to other things – from geckos to PVA adhesive
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FeatureThe science of the perfect cake
Nina Notman opens her lab notebook to find a recipe fit for a queen
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BusinessTaking plastic out of performance paper coatings
SGMA’s silicate sol-gel is a sustainable alternative for packaging such as coffee cups
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CareersThe benefits to mentors of mentoring
Mentoring a junior scientist offers plenty of benefits for you as well
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ReviewToxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia
A comprehensive and timely book covering events from 1931 to 2018
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OpinionMartin Gouterman: the gay man behind the four-orbital model
Abhik Ghosh tells the story of a porphyrin chemist who was a leading figure in Seattle’s gay rights movement of the 1960s
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Justin Houseknecht
An organic chemist in the US has used the pandemic to try to spark change in how chemistry is taught at universities