All Culture and people articles – Page 92
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OpinionThe dangers of dimethylmercury
Looking back at how the death of Karen Wetterhahn changed lab safety
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NewsFaculty mindset affects racial achievement gap in Stem subjects
Racial performance gap is twice as large in Stem classes taught by professors who believe intelligence is inherent and can’t be changed
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ResearchChemical analysis reveals origin of Pompeian mosaic tiles
Work will help to preserve ancient murals
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NewsSmall research teams more likely to deliver disruptive results
Both large and small teams are needed to keep the scientific ecosystem healthy, study finds
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NewsManfred Eigen, pioneer of study of exceptionally fast chemical reactions, dies aged 91
Eigen was instrumental in the development of a method to probe reactions using pulses of energy
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OpinionHave we solved chemistry?
A new book suggests chemistry is over 90% ‘complete’ – and that could be a good thing
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ReviewInventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Teenage Kicks - a cognitive neuroscientist explains why teenagers are the way they are
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PodcastInventing Ourselves by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore – Book club
Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explores the unique period of brain development that occurs during adolescence
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OpinionShould I help make fullerenes if people are going to eat them?
The ethics of getting involved in products with unproven claims
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OpinionThe Likens-Nickerson Apparatus
Tracking down an obscure kit’s creator can make you hopping mad
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Opinion‘I taught my local restaurant how to make noodles’
Organic chemistry maestro Jin-Quan Yu on football, food and cleaving the C–H bond
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ReviewElemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
A whistle-stop tour of the periodic table
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PuzzleFebruary 2019 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the February 2019 print issue of Chemistry World
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NewsYear-long celebration of the periodic table launched by Unesco
Hundreds gather in Paris to commemorate 150 years of Dmitri Mendeleev’s most enduring work
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FeatureThe discovery of the noble gases
How an extra line in the solar spectrum kicked off a search for the ‘missing metals’ that turned out to be noble gases
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NewsAs government shutdown drags on US researchers find themselves caught in the crossfire
As the shutdown enters its second month many scientists have been left struggling to pay the rent or childcare as research projects flounder