Katharine Sanderson
I'm a science journalist specialising in the physical sciences.
My day job is assistant news editor at Nature, but I have also spent time as a freelance journalist, and on staff as a reporter, also with Nature for several years. My writing career started at the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine Chemistry World where I was a features editor and reporter. I've got a BSc from Imperial College London, and a PhD from Cambridge University, both in chemistry.
ArticleJulia Lermontova: an early pioneer
Katharine Sanderson tells the story of a 19th century Russian chemist who made contributions across a range of chemistry
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Stefanie Horovitz – the woman behind the isotope
Overlooked by history, murdered by the Nazis: the forgotten story of a talented chemist who helped prove the existence of isotopes
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Chemical life support
Keeping astronauts alive requires some clever chemistry, as Katharine Sanderson discovers
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What are you afraid of?
The public’s mistrust of ‘chemicals’ will take great efforts to repair. Katharine Sanderson looks at the ‘c’-word
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Press P to print
The use of 3D printers to create lab equipment, deliver reagents and even build biomaterials is on the rise. Katharine Sanderson installs drivers and prints away
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Science's spiritual side?
Some view science and religion as mutually exclusive. Most feel there is some conflict between them. But this has not always been the case, Katharine Sanderson discovers
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Solvents reveal their ionic powers
Katharine Sanderson unveils the proof that finally showed quite how special the green solvents ionic liquids really are
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Copper mines and chemistry
Extracting pure copper metal from low-grade metal ores will benefit from the latest coordination chemistry research, thanks to a molecule that can hold negative and positive ions in place, UK chemists claim.
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Small businesses face heavy burden
Europe's small to medium-sized businesses will be hit hard by costs planned for the European Chemicals Agency, industry representatives have warned.
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Higher than the sun
Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, head of the UK fusion programme, would like to see viable fusion power a reality in his lifetime. To this end, he is strongly backing Iter, an international fusion project, as Katharine Sanderson finds out
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Fuel cell future in miniature
Forget Lego and Meccano, the latest techie toy for surreptitiously educating unsuspecting children has arrived - a mini hydrogen fuel-cell-powered car.
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Bury radioactive waste, UK government told
Radioactive waste should be stored deep underground at sites where local communities have had the opportunity to participate in, and even withdraw from, the planning process.
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Small businesses face disproportionate costs
European industry representatives say chemical regulations will hit SMEs hardest
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Whirling dust devils bust martian methane
Snow storm of hydrogen peroxide could sterilise planet's surface
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Bury radioactive waste, UK government told
Underground repository proposed as long-term home for spent fuel rods
