All Culture and people articles – Page 86
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OpinionDeadly science inspiring future Indigenous scientists
Corey Tutt took on a second job to stock the bookshelves of remote Australian schools
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NewsUS science Nobel laureates back Biden in presidential race
Eighty-one US Nobel prize winners, including 24 in chemistry, are publicly supporting Biden over Trump
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NewsChina has 600 outposts across the world to recruit scientists
Report claims to have uncovered network to acquire advanced technology in not only the US, but also Germany, Australia, the UK and beyond
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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