The Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC’s) chief executive Helen Pain is one of several members of the chemical sciences community to have been recognised in the UK’s 2024 New Year Honours list. Pain, who has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to science, said she was […]
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Springer is one of the world’s largest academic publishers with a vast catalogue of science and history of science publications. One might think that when Springer publishes a history of science book, for which they charge the princely sum of €246.09, that they would at least employ fact checkers before publishing; one would obviously be […]
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I only had a gun pulled on me once during my time at Chemistry World. It was on a chill October morning at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, and the military guards, still at their post from the Cold War with AK-47s at the ready, hadn’t been told about our […]
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