All Feature articles – Page 15
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Know your poison: the festival chemical safety net
How analytical chemistry helps reduce the harms of drug use
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Could Irish change cause ripples elsewhere?
John O’Donoghue investigates transformations on the horizon for Ireland’s education system
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Cutting edge science in a school laboratory
After ten years, many experiments and cohorts of new students, Catherine Smith shares her experience completing a multistep synthesis with her science club
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Inspiring the next generation of scientists
What makes students aspire to a career in science?
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Earn while you learn
How the new apprenticeship levy is shaping opportunities for school students
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Carbon dioxide gets stoned
Locking Earth’s excess carbon dioxide away by turning it into rock
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Clearing the air around smoke formation
Answering the riddle of why unsaturated fuels burn with sooty flames
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Recharging the future
As lithium-ion batteries are pushed to their limits, what technology could replace them?
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Teaching career skills to undergraduates
Using context- and problem-based learning to increase commercial awareness for chemistry undergraduates
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Magical demonstrations
Neil Monteiro shows how taking lessons from magicians can make your demos come alive
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Chemistry stinks
Jacob Cox, Simon Rees and Peter Banks describe educational techniques linking the sense of smell with memory
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The massive problem of microplastics
As plastics fill up and pollute our oceans, recognising their value rather than thinking of them as disposable could help us deal with what has turned into a large, global problem
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Modern-day alchemists
Sam Tracey visits Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to find out how to make a new element