All History articles – Page 23
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Podcast
Arsenic trioxide
How a ‘daft’ pharmacy mix up led to a series of poisonings in Victorian Britain
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Careers
Why I mummified a taxi driver
Stephen Buckley explains how chemistry has rewritten ancient history
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Review
Stalin and the scientists: a history of triumph and tragedy 1905–1953
Scientific life in the Soviet Union
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Opinion
How Roosevelt's Tree Army were poisoned
In the first of a new column, Raychelle Burks investigates a mass arsenic poisoning during the Great Depression
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Opinion
Humphry Davy and cutting our carbon footprint
A 200 year old electrolysis experiment could hold the key to sustainable fertiliser production
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Research
Dye detective work uncovers Perkin’s chemistry secrets
The pioneering Victorian chemist didn’t reveal all in his patent on the first synthetic purple dye
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Research
Chemists find mummified legs may belong to Queen Nefertari
Gas chromatography reveals legs belong to one of Egypt’s lost queens
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Research
Mpemba effect in hot water after doubt cast on its existence
Frosty reception for claim that effect where hot water freezes faster than cold has no basis
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Research
Middle Eastern bitumen at Sutton Hoo rewrites trade history
The black lumps provide the first evidence for a bitumen trade network between the British Isles and the Middle East