All History articles – Page 9
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ResearchSimple campfire chemistry hints how ancient humans produced pigments
Process to make red ochre didn’t require close control of temperature
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ResearchPrehistoric Iberians poisoned by cinnabar almost 5000 years ago
Analyses of mercury levels in bones reveal ancient artists suffered for their craft
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NewsVan ’t Hoff’s Amsterdam lab becomes historic chemical landmark
Now a café and exhibition space, the building once contained the first chemistry Nobel prize winner’s research space
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OpinionRethinking our relationship to nature
How the scientific revolution made it culturally permissible to exploit the environment
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OpinionJames LuValle, a chemist who broke the colour barrier
Sports or science? There was never really any competition for a Black Olympian who made significant contributions to Kodak’s colour film, as Hayley Bennett discovers
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OpinionThe seabirds saved by synthetic chemistry
How an agricultural demand for bird poo almost destroyed an island group’s ecosystem
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OpinionVolta’s ink spills its secrets
Chemical analysis of manuscripts can reveal details of their author’s life and motivations
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NewsKarolinska Institute pursues name changes to lose racist links
Home of medicine Nobel prize to rename building and two streets named after racist scientists
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OpinionWeininger’s Smiles
The man whose code – and attitude to life – brought much happiness to chemists
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OpinionTimmers’ towers and Straus’ flasks
The revolutionary system that made labs much less likely to go up in flames
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ResearchBlasts from the past – how medieval gunpowder changed over 100 years
Test-firing different gunpowders in a replica 15th century cannon on the firing range at West Point showed how recipes evolved
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ResearchMarie Antoinette’s secret messages to Swedish count revealed by chemical analysis
Spectroscopy deciphers censored passages in 200-year-old letters between last French queen and the man rumoured to be her lover
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OpinionScience as a product of culture
The role of background beliefs and assumptions in the development of science
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NewsExplainer: The science of alkyl nitrites aka poppers
From their origins as 19th century angina treatment to becoming an important part of gay subculture, these recreational drugs exist in a legal limbo
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OpinionThe lifesaving work of Evelyn Hickmans
Anne Green tells us how a female chemist almost single-handedly established paediatric clinical chemistry and led to a first in global health
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ResearchIsotope analysis of Vesuvius victims reveals how ancient Romans dined
Herculaneum’s men had greater access to fish, while women relied more on terrestrial animal products
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OpinionHidden details in iconic portrait of Lavoisiers reveal fears of coming revolution
As the French Revolution neared the Lavoisiers were reimagined as scientific progressives rather than out of touch aristocrats
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OpinionPodbielniak’s contactor
How a new spin on separation produced petroleum, penicillin and much more
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OpinionClara Immerwahr – out of her husband’s shadow
The tragic story of the chemist best known as Fritz Haber’s wife might not be as clear cut as many believe, finds Bárbara Pinho