Hayley Bennett
Hayley Bennett is a freelance science writer and editor based in Bristol, UK. She covers biology, chemistry and the environment and, in over a decade of writing, has tackled everything from the origin of life to feeding tea to cows. Her articles have appeared in BBC Focus, Chemistry World, The Guardian, Mosaic, Nature, New Scientist, The Observer, Science Uncovered and the Telegraph. She spent a number of years covering environmental research and putting together in-depth reports for Science for Environment Policy.
She co-authored The big questions in science in 2013 and published her first solo book, 50 chemistry ideas you really need to know, in 2015. Now Hayley has a son, she spends two days a week chasing him around and three days a week writing. She also runs, bikes, slow-cooks, admires monkey puzzle trees, volunteers at junior parkrun, paints (walls) and takes pictures.
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Your place or mine? The local business of lithium mining
Lithium-ion batteries will power the next generation of electric cars, but how can we mine lithium with minimal impact on the environment?
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Concrete solutions to sustainable materials
Enhance your teaching of materials and explore how new types of concrete could reduce carbon emissions
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Coronavirus: should we be sanitising our shopping?
Chemists are busily working out how long Covid-19 remains viable on various surfaces – here’s what we know so far
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Sulfur hexafluoride
A gas widely used in electrical devices with 23,500 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide
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Hydrochloric acid
The science behind one of the most commonly used laboratory acids
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Ethanoic acid
Hayley Bennett reveals the science behind everyone’s favourite household acid
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Chromatography fights food fraud
How chromatography helped solve a food safety crisis – includes classroom resources.
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Precious water
New off-grid water treatment technologies are saving lives supplying clean water where there are no taps or pipes