All articles by Nina Notman – Page 6
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Dual personality of light caught on camera
Is it a wave or is it a particle? We might know the answer, (Spoiler alert: it’s both!) but it is reassuring nonetheless to see the pictures that prove it, says Nina Notman
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A comet starts to tell its watery tale
Nina Notman probes what measurements taken onboard the Rosetta spacecraft mean for our understanding of the origin of water on Earth
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Faster, higher, stronger ... fairly
Nina Notman investigates the recent ban on athletes inhaling noble gases
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Climate research heats up
Nina Notman meets some of the atmospheric chemists fitting the pieces of the climate change jigsaw together
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Supporting diversity and encouraging inclusion
Positive role models are key to attracting a more diverse section of society to the chemical sciences.
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Bark beetles eat Beatle’s memorial tree
Nina Notman discovers at how bark beetles are destroying pine trees at an alarming rate
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Dutch roads smarten up
Nina Notman explores the possibility of interactive, sustainable highways
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Chemists on the front line
The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has a near century-long history of working with chemical weapons. Philip Robinson reports from Porton Down
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Chemical weapon destruction takes float
Nina Notman’s thoughts turn to the chemists preparing to destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal at sea
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Tubes and wet concrete don’t mix
Nina Notman ponders chemistry’s role in drying out the Victoria line after a concrete flood
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Beating HIV with a nanosized stick
Nina Notman finds out how scientists at the University of Liverpool use nanomedicine to aid the successful treatment of HIV
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The Mole
A day in the life of analyst: Carl Ruffel
Carl has spent the past three years working as an analyst for the Medical Research Council. He talks to Nina Notman about his typical day