All Culture and people articles – Page 89
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OpinionNazarov cyclisation
We are all shaped by the opportunities afforded us, by the social structures and politics of our day
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ReviewTV series: Unnatural Selection
From biohackers to malaria-fighting mosquitos, this Netflix documentary looks at the powerful yet controversial technology of genetic engineering
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Mélissa Nehme, Lucía Gallego and Joe Woods
Researchers are returning to labs in Switzerland with social distancing measures in place
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PodcastOleic acid
Brian Clegg discovers the link between olive oil, dandruff and stained glass windows.
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NewsStatistician Adrian Smith to be next president of the Royal Society
Director of the Alan Turing Institute will take up the post in November
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: James Canary
The chair of NYU’s chemistry department says research is ‘completely interrupted’ in his lab and his senior graduate student is stuck in China
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PodcastSmoke & Mirrors by Gemma Milne – Book club
Science journalist Gemma Milne’s first book promises to be a guide on how to recognise hype and how to cut through it
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ReviewSmoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It
Gemma Milne explores how hype has influenced nine different areas of science and technology, from cancer treatments to quantum computers
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: James Keeler
The head of Cambridge’s chemistry department says its research has been ‘mothballed’, and he worries about lost productivity
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BusinessMicropore Technologies’ model membranes make exact emulsions
Solving scalability issues to control particle size without high-shear mixing
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OpinionRita Colwell: ‘Pseudoscience is almost like a disease’
The former director of the US National Science Foundation on persevering and flourishing as a woman in science
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NewsNobel laureates see a dip in the influence of their work after winning prize
Decline in impact comes despite Nobel winners remaining just as productive and well-funded
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NewsPandemic is a looming disaster for UK universities with 30,000 jobs threatened
Higher education sector faces potential funding black hole of £2.5 billion
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ResearchIntroducing chirality to give organic electronics a twist
Medicinal molecules and electronic materials aren’t often found in the same research group. Meet Matthew Fuchter, who’s excelling at both
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NewsWhile female and minority science PhDs’ ideas are more novel they’re often overlooked
Study examining almost every US PhD for the last three decades finds – for the first time – that ‘diversity paradox’ holds true for science
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ReviewFrankissstein: A Love Story
Like a modern-day rollercoaster ride through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this novel is an exploration of the scientific community’s incremental crawl towards evolutionary perfection
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NewsExplainer: Why is mixing cleaning chemicals such a bad idea?
Accidents involving cleaning products have been on the rise this year, most likely due to the Covid-19 pandemic
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OpinionEunice Foote: the mother of climate change
The first person to link carbon dioxide to atmospheric warming has almost been forgotten. Rachel Brazil uncovers her story
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Alán Aspuru-Guzik
University of Toronto quantum computing guru says the computational chemists are ‘not in a normal state’, in Canada or anywhere