All Culture and people articles – Page 71
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ArticlePittcon 2021: connections that matter
After 71 years as a physical event, Pittcon 2021 goes virtual on its 72nd birthday
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PuzzleFebruary 2021 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the February 2021 print issue of Chemistry World
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NewsNobel laureate Paul Crutzen, who coined the term Anthropocene, dies
Cutzen’s passing means that all three scientists who won the 1995 chemistry Nobel prize for their ozone formation and decomposition work are gone
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OpinionEugenia Kumacheva: ‘My poetry is in my research proposals’
The soft matter expert on curiosity, collaborators and creativity
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ReviewHow Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything
What’s the climate impact of a Google search, a return trip from London to Hong Kong or having a child?
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NewsMIT faculty rally around colleague arrested for Chinese government links
Letter to university’s president signed by 170 faculty members debunks charges against nanotechnologist Gang Chen
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NewsProminent Chinese immunologist and research integrity leader cleared of scientific misconduct
Investigation finds problems with images but concludes that Xuetao Cao is not guilty of research fraud
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ResearchNitrogen radical chemistry sees the light
Daniele Leonori explains how his group is taking inspiration from 30-year-old chemistry to devise shorter syntheses for bioactive compounds
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ReviewEntangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Like a walk in the forest accompanied by an expert biologist
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ResearchColour-changing coating can diagnose damage to climbing ropes or safety equipment
Heat and friction changes appearance of metal-based coating
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NewsRoyal Society of Chemistry retracts 70 fake ‘paper mill’ articles
Extensive investigations found systematic production of fraudulent research
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NewsMIT nanotechnologist arrested for hiding his ties to China
The head of an MIT nanoengineering lab who worked at the university for decades is accused of grant fraud and faces up to 30 years in jail
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OpinionMargarita Salas: the marquesa of molecular biology
Hayley Bennett celebrates the Spanish biochemist who flourished during the Franco era
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NewsLack of support undermines minority and female chemistry PhDs
US survey shows importance of peers and finances in graduate schools
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ReviewUncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
20 years after it was first published, Oliver Sacks’ memoir remains a popular chemistry classic – and for good reason
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PodcastUncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks – Book club
We celebrate 20 years of a popular chemistry classic – written by neurologist
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