All articles by Patrick Walter – Page 3
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Opinion
A Brexit deal has been reached – will it work for UK science?
Researchers must now make the best of the Brexit agreement
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Opinion
Ethical challenge
Should researchers infect healthy people with Sars-CoV-2 to speed up vaccine testing?
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News
Live – Crispr wins the 2020 chemistry Nobel prize
On the day of the 2020 Nobel prize in chemistry, we covered all the action as it happened
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Opinion
Chemical detective work shows its power in latest Novichok saga
Analytical chemistry’s forensic feats are astounding but so commonplace now that we’ve become blasé to them
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Opinion
Making the right call on dexamethasone
The way we do things in research has to change in life or death situations
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Opinion
Zhenan Bao: 'We just had to dream big'
The flexible electronics maven talks about science’s biggest problem, orchids and Campbell’s chicken noodle soup
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Opinion
Speaking up for UK science
A top down approach to science by Johnson’s government could make it harder for scientists’ problems to be heard
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Opinion
The hunt for a killer stalking vapers
Vaping deaths in the US became a whodunnit as chemistry was called upon to track down the culprit
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Opinion
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski: 'In science, one needs to have a vision'
The polymerisation guru on taking work on honeymoon, the softest snow in the States and his favourite restaurant
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Review
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
Is an organ grown from stem cells human? And what rights – if any – should a it have? These are questions Philip Ball – who many might know as Chemistry World columnist – explores in his new book.
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Opinion
How can we tackle fake science news?
Complex topics make bogus research news even harder to tackle – but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try
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News
Queen’s speech reveals new research agency planned for UK
Government plans transformative research body based on US’s Arpa to deliver new technologies
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News
Live blog: lithium-ion batteries take the 2019 chemistry Nobel prize
We covered the 2019 Nobel prize announcement as it happened
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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
Does the higher education review augur well for universities?
Political winds are buffeting higher education once more
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