All articles by Rachel Brazil – Page 5
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The proteins of touch
Our sense of touch and balance is deeply ingrained in our experiences, but what are the chemical processes that make it work? Rachel Brazil investigates
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'How pragmatic is it to be a blind scientist?’
Mona Minkara on not letting loss of vision end her science ambitions
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Raiders of the lost pigments
The old sculptures in museums have lost their original colour, but chemistry can help us discover how they used to look
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Time to lose chemistry’s subdisciplines?
Organic, inorganic and physical – do they mean anything in modern chemistry?
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Drugging the epigenome
Drugs that change how your genes are switched on or off could change how we treat many diseases, as Rachel Brazil discovers
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Refugee scientists
Rachel Brazil looks at schemes to help refugee scientists in the past, present and future
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Shaping up at the nanoscale
Rods, stars or spheres? Rachel Brazil looks at the shape of things to come
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The Lego creator
Lego’s Thomas Tarp tells Rachel Brazil how the world’s largest toy company is at the forefront of chemical safety and sustainable materials
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Soft robots get a grip
Rachel Brazil looks at how chemists are helping make robots with a more gentle touch
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The Greenpeace scientist
Rachel Brazil discovers how a chance phonecall took Paul Johnston from being a concerned researcher to Greenpeace’s principal scientist
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Bones of contention
Can protein in dinosaur bones survive for millions of years? Rachel Brazil explores the evidence
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The textiles designer
Combining chemistry with a passion for textiles has taken Fern Kelly on an unusual career journey spanning the globe. Rachel Brazil investigates
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The origin of homochirality
Why do so many biological molecules exist in just one chirality – and how did it emerge? Rachel Brazil reflects on life’s strange asymmetry