All articles by Jennifer Newton – Page 4
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PodcastTranscendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince – Book club
We discuss prize-winning author Gaia Vince’s new book Transcendence, and discover how collaboration made humans Earth’s most successful species
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ReviewTranscendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time
A fast-paced journey through the entire history of humans, trying to answer the question of what makes us different from other animals
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OpinionElectrolytes are no longer a postscript to the battery story
Just because electrolytes are effectively inert, doesn’t mean they can’t be sophisticated
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PodcastHow To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe – Book club
We discuss xkcd comic creator Randall Munroe’s new book that deals out absurd – but scientifically accurate – advice for everyday problems
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ReviewHow to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Have you ever considered the practicalities of building a swimming pool out of cheese?
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OpinionOnly boring elements get bored
Prizes for best, most boring and most overlooked element up for grabs
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OpinionMargaret Brimble: 'Spiroketals are my favourite molecules'
The New Zealand chemist on careers, creativity and why everything just has to be blue
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OpinionThe third degree on actinide covalency
The often ignored elements are attracting chemists’ attention again
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OpinionRighting history
Archaeology can offer unique perspectives on our place in the world, but the field has some challenges to overcome along the way
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ReviewHumble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Matt Parker’s book shows just how serious the consequences of mathematical mistakes can be
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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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OpinionChiral curiosities
The challenges posed by asymmetry go hand in hand with fascinating insights into developmental biology
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ReviewGene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of his journey from physics student to chemistry Nobel laureate
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ResearchCluster fundamentals
Stefanie Dehnen discusses the exotic structures of inorganic chemistry’s middle ground
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ReviewLosing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor
Is the Nobel prize advancing or hampering scientific progress?
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OpinionThe potential of promiscuity
Nobel recognition for a concept whose benefit to humankind is far from being truly realised
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ReviewChernobyl: History of a Tragedy
What went wrong on the 26 April 1986 disaster and what continued to go wrong in the days, weeks and years that followed
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