All articles by Nina Notman – Page 5
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FeatureActivating C–Hemistry
Meet the organic chemists intent on breaking bonds that are generally considered to be unreactive
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FeatureExplosive science
Nina Notman learns the role chemistry plays in monitoring volcanoes and understanding the impact of their eruptions
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CareersThe offshore chemist
Catriona Gebbie talks to Nina Notman about life as the only analytical chemist on board a North Sea oil production platform
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Feature2Heavy drugs gaining momentum
With the first approval of a drug containing deuterium looking imminent, Nina Notman surveys the deuterated drug landscape
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FeaturePlastic problems
Tiny pieces of plastic may be doing as much harm in our oceans and waterways as the big stuff, finds Nina Notman
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CareersMarine paint innovation
Nina Notman visits the AkzoNobel site in Gateshead and meets the scientists designing the next generation of environmentally-friendly marine paints
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CareersA Nobel cause
Nina Notman talks to the scientists at the international organisation protecting humanity from the horrors of chemical warfare
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CareersThe online teacher
Neil Garg plans to transform how students around the world think about organic chemistry – with Bacon. Nina Notman explains
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FeatureGoing for gold
Nina Notman looks at attempts to reduce the environmental impacts of small-scale gold mining
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CareersThe race to equality
Nina Notman looks at the group and individual efforts to promote racial equality in academia
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FeatureWell-tempered chocolate
Nina Notman discovers that controlling crystal structures and emulsions is the key to good chocolate
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CareersA mile in their shoes
Nina Notman explores the options open to scientists looking to learn more about policymaking and the inner workings of government
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FeatureWho reviews the reviews?
Nina Notman investigates the new alternatives being developed to replace peer review as we know it
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CareersThe space junky
Sending her experimental polymers into space was a career high for Lenore Rasmussen. But space is just one part of the story, Nina Notman finds
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CareersShow and tell
Nina Notman explores the performance-based communication competitions turning researchers into raconteurs
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CareersThe kitchen chemist
Nina Notman finds nothing half-baked about the chemistry demonstrations that Stephen Ashworth whips up
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FeatureImaging the future
Doctors and pharmaceutical companies are beginning to open their eyes to the power of mass spectrometry imaging, finds Nina Notman
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CareersThe changing face of the PhD
Universities in the UK are exploring the European approach of building a thesis from published papers, finds Nina Notman
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FeatureIt's a bloody business
Determining the role drugs and poisons may have played in death is the responsibility of forensic toxicologists. Nina Notman reports
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FeatureFrom screen to cell
Nina Notman finds out how liquid crystals are moving into the biotechnology and pharmaceutical toolbox