All articles by Neil Withers – Page 2
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Opinion
Business as usual?
The pandemic has shown that we can react quickly to complex problems – can we do it to avert a climate crisis?
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Review
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
20 years after it was first published, Oliver Sacks’ memoir remains a popular chemistry classic – and for good reason
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Podcast
Book club – Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
We celebrate 20 years of a popular chemistry classic – written by neurologist
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Review
TV series: The Salisbury Poisonings
A gripping, fact-based drama about the poisoning of a former Russian spy, showing eerie parallels to the current coronavirus pandemic
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Opinion
Water funny liquid
Raise a glass to the essential ingredient to life, of endless fascination to chemists
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Opinion
A dedicated follower of slow fashion
Our features editor has some clothes that are nearly old enough to vote
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Opinion
Good enough at last
Neil Withers reflects on the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry, awarded for developing lithium-ion batteries
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Article
The data behind the Nobel prizes
We’ve looked at over 100 years of data behind who and what wins the Nobel prize
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Opinion
Don’t be sniffy about sewage – or concrete
Do you flush and forget? Time to make a stink about concrete’s emissions
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Opinion
(When) will we go to the moon again?
Will people follow in the footsteps of the Apollo astronauts any time soon?
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News
The Cambridge Structural Database hits one million structures
Warning! Contains extreme crystallography
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Opinion
Have you had enough of the periodic table yet?
There are enough ways to organise the elements to suit everyone’s taste
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Article
Celebrating the periodic table
Peter Wothers tells us about the first published version of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table, currently on show in Cambridge
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Opinion
Who wants to live forever?
How many of us will be healthy enough to ride off into the golden sunset of a long retirement?