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The old carbon-filament electric lamp was essentially a fine graphite filament in a vacuum
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Anyone who has any laboratory teaching experience can tell you how difficult it can be to get students to follow instructions
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My first memory of being taught chemistry is being told to learn the names of all the elements, in order.
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When the magazine New Scientist was started in 1958, each reviewer also got a little brown sample of 'silly putty'
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Which chemist's work has touched the most lives? Marie Curie? Louis Pasteur? Joseph Lister?
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From time to time I translate public relations documents on progress in science and technology
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Forensic scientists are cool, calculating, oddly attractive, and wear expensive sunglasses