Neil Withers
@NeilWithers
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Features Editor for @ChemistryWorld, so mostly tweeting about #chemistry Formerly an associate editor on @NatureChemistry. Also now @[email protected]
Cambridge, England
Joined March 2009
Today is my last working day of the year, so it's time for my annual look back at some highlights!. Back in January, we published this feature by @ninanotman about recreating/understanding ancient odours, which you could call Raiders of the Lost Smells.
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Nina Notman sniffs out chemistry's role in uncovering, documenting and recreating the scents of the past
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It’s a brilliant epic!.
Really pleased to have been able to speak with two of last week's Nobel prize-winners - @GoogleDeepMind's John Jumper and @UWproteindesign's David Baker - for this story:.
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RT @obrientweet: This analysis workshop led by my colleague and fellow @absw board member and @thetimes science editor @whippletom is likel….
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Now fully booked
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Lesser spotted Nobel laureate with . interesting current scientific views glimpsed in the wild!.
❓ Question 8, from Professor Brian Josephson: 9/10.
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RT @OxfordChemistry: 🧪Read about transforming undergraduate lab practicals in this article from @RoySocChem, featuring the amazing work of….
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Nina Notman speaks to the educators leading the charge to revamp how university students learn in the laboratory
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Just wait till you hear about fluorescein….
I was today years old when I learned that chlorophyll doesn’t contain chlorine. Its name comes from the greek khloros, which means green. (It does contain the organic compound chlorin, which again has no chlorine in it!).
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We tried to make the real version! . In Nobel prize nominations, at least:
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Who nominated whom for the biggest prize in chemistry
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I love hearing faraway combine harvesters still going strong when I’m in bed at this time of year.
Today is Lammas, an Anglo-Saxon harvest festival celebrated on 1 August. The name comes from 'hlafmæsse', 'loaf-mass', a feast of bread, and it may have been a day for blessing loaves of bread made from the first wheat of the harvest.
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It me, as they say.
Our July covers over the last 20 years have featured stories of fraud, biases, art, designer drugs and much more. @NeilWithers, our Features editor, walks us through some of the most memorable as we celebrate 2 decades of Chemistry World.
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Would deep sea mining be better or worse than this? Because we're already doing this.
Satellite images show deforestation toll of mining in Indonesia. Click here to read:
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So Inception is an "old film"?? . Christ, I feel ancient.
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I wrote this while wearing a cape and mask to get into the spirit of things.
'Supercapacitors offer a glimpse of an energy storage future different from – or complementary to – batteries,' writes @NeilWithers.
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RT @RichardALJones: The choice of advanced gas cooled reactors over PWRs in the 1970s is widely held to be emblematic of all that was wrong….
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RT @andyextance: I’m always excited and curious to write about the chemistry of the brain. And therefore I couldn’t resist writing for @Che….
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Andy Extance looks into the latest in Alzheimer's disease, pain and memory
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It really winds me up that Michael Crichton has Prof Ian Malcolm – the genius voice of scientific reason in Jurassic Park – say that black clothes are cooler on a hot day 'because of black body radiation', in spite of all empirical evidence to the contrary. Bloody theorists.
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10/10 for the opening line in this story:. "Millions of Britons were forced to drink subpar cups of tea last November due to the recordbreaking low pressure caused by Storm Ciarán.".
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Recordbreaking low pressure due to extreme weather meant water was boiling at 98C in Reading on day of storm
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I see what they’ve done there.
England striker Steve Bull in an ornament shop in Italy during the 1990 World Cup Finals in Italy (1990)
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I can only assume this is @jon_agar.
The 100 year rule releases from 2039 onwards are gonna be wild. We know all of the Axis Powers' dirty secrets from WW2, but not our own.
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It turns out the counterfeit spirit had been made from ethanol distilled from *coal* - I think from apartheid-era South Africa, where they were isolated from other supplies (of fuel and booze) (4/n).
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