Richard Corfield

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    News

    Liquid explosives detectors entering service at airports

    2014-06-10T00:00:00

    New technology may put an end to restrictions on liquids in hand luggage

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    Feature

    The enduring controversy of the Turin Shroud

    2013-12-23T00:00:00

    Far from putting the debate to rest, the dating of the Turin Shroud merely fuelled the controversy, as Richard Corfield discovers

  • Periodic table of the elements – 89 – Actinium
    Podcast

    Actinium

    2010-06-09T00:00:00

    A primordial element, and one of the first additions to Mendeleev's periodic table

  • Feature

    Houston, we've had a problem

    2010-02-26T14:32:57

    On the 40th anniversary of the explosion on board Apollo 13 , Richard Corfield reports on the cause and how teamwork returned the astronauts to Earth safely

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    Identifying the lost soldiers of Fromelles

    2010-01-29T09:19:21

    More than 90 years on, recently found bodies of 250 soldiers who died during the Battle of Fromelles in the first world war need identifying. Richard Corfield investigates

  • Review

    A modern take on Darwin

    2010-01-06T12:50:52

    Revisiting Darwin's evolutionary insight in the context of modern genetics

  • Periodic table of the elements – 96 – Curium
    Podcast

    Curium

    2009-12-23T00:00:00

    Richard Corfield tells the story of a hard, brittle, radioactive metal that can only be produced in nuclear reactors

  • Feature

    One giant leap

    2009-07-28T15:14:07

    NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role, says Richard Corfield

  • Periodic table of the elements – 62 – Samarium
    Podcast

    Samarium

    2008-10-08T00:00:00

    A rare, lustrous element whose isotopes have unfathomably long half-lives

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    Feature

    Genome maverick

    2008-06-30T12:05:00

    In an exclusive interview, controversial scientist and entrepreneur Craig Venter tells Richard Corfield how he thinks synthetic genomics can save the planet

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    The chemists who saved biology

    2008-01-28T13:38:03

    A long voyage led one young chemist to steer evolutionary biology onto the right course. Richard Corfield explores the life of chemistry's Darwin

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    Makeshift to Mars

    2007-07-26T12:15:18

    The red planet has claimed many a plucky spacecraft. Richard Corfield discovers how Nasa's latest attempt hopes to overcome the odds with a different approach

  • Feature

    The greenhouse in the sky

    2006-03-23T10:08:38

    Venus could be the ultimate example of what can happen when an atmospheric greenhouse effect runs away. A mission to the planet four billion years ago might have shed some light on what is happening on Earth. But Esa's Venus Express probe will instead foc

  • Feature

    The X-philes of evolution

    2005-09-07T10:13:00

    It's time to stop thinking of enzymes as delicate entities that fall apart under the slightest pressure. Richard Corfield introduces us to the amazing world of thermophilic enzymes and extremophiles.

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    Timed to perfection

    2004-01-01T00:00:00

    Do we want clocks accurate to one second every 30 billion years? At that precision, gravity weighs down the passage of time - though it might be easier to find your way around the planet. Richard Corfield reports.

  • News

    Signatures of time

    2003-11-01T00:00:00

    Richard Corfield explains how stable isotopes are helping to pinpoint geologic time.

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    Mapping migration

    2003-09-01T00:00:00

    Isotopic ratios in the feathers of birds hold evidence of their comings and goings, and may explain some of the mysteries of migration.