All articles by Rachel Brazil – Page 5
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FeatureIlluminating manuscript treasures
Rachel Brazil takes a look at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s illuminated manuscripts and learns their scientific stories
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FeaturePhase to phase
Chemists are finding fascinating phase-change phenomena, discovers Rachel Brazil
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CareersVideo games are enabling discovery
Gamification is harnessing an untapped army of citizen scientists
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FeatureThe 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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Careers'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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FeatureRaiders 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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CareersTime to lose chemistry’s subdisciplines?
Organic, inorganic and physical – do they mean anything in modern chemistry?
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FeatureDrugging 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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FeatureRefugee scientists
Rachel Brazil looks at schemes to help refugee scientists in the past, present and future
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FeatureShaping up at the nanoscale
Rods, stars or spheres? Rachel Brazil looks at the shape of things to come
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