All Culture and people articles – Page 81
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OpinionEdgar Cahoon: ‘There is still so much basic knowledge to learn’
The biochemist and plant scientist talks about growing up on a dairy farm in Eastern Virginia, gardening, biking and Cornhusker football
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ReviewDrink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
A book questioning the normalcy of drinking, exploring personal and policy responses to excessive alcohol consumption
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OpinionEnabling environments support the development of diverse teams
A great workplace allows individuals to be constrained only by the limits of their own minds
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Hannah Beska
A teaching technician in England is helping to make her labs safe for the start of term in September
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ReviewThe Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception
A book that aims to opens readers’ eyes to the fact-bending methods corporations employ to make profit
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ReviewThe Chemical Reaction
Badass chemical engineer Jaqueline Silver’s second outing has it all: explosives, villains and periodic table-based code cracking
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OpinionFrom collaboration to collusion
The US government’s crackdown on academics not declaring Chinese funding highlights a moral hazard
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Anya Gryn’ova
The computational chemist has returned to her Heidelberg research institute after months of lockdown, and is thankful to be living in Germany
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WebinarChange, uncertainty and resilience – Building a better chemistry culture
Join us as we discuss ways to develop resilience in the face of uncertainty and change
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NewsRecalibration is the biggest shake-up in the carbon dating world for seven years
Overhaul will improve accuracy and push back how far samples can be dated by 5000 years
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ReviewHalf Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
The story of a radioactive element from its rise to a cure-all ingredient to the downfall of an entire industry
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PodcastHalf Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos – Book club
From radioactive spa treatments to liquid sunshine, this book traces a forgotten part of chemistry history
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NewsUK chemistry pipeline loses almost all of its Black, Asian and other ethnic minority chemists after undergraduate studies
Black students are only one quarter as likely to study for a PhD than their white counterparts
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ReviewDeath By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
A book for anyone with an interest in science, death, Elizabethan literature and British history – or all of the above
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ResearchTranslating snail venom research from beach to bench and beyond
Meet Mandë Holford, an interdisciplinary scientist following tangents that arise when exploring the molecular-level workings of venom peptides
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ReviewFilm: Picture a Scientist
What is it really like being a scientist who does not fit the ‘traditional’ image or the man in the white lab coat?
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OpinionMarguerite Perey and the last element in nature
Kit Chapman tells the story of the chemist who discovered francium, but was almost denied the credit