By Steph Taylor & Jared Stang Physics and Astronomy subject editors Last Friday was Marie Curie’s 147th birthday. To put it mildly, Marie Curie was an astonishing scientist, and certainly someone to look up to regardless of gender. Marie Curie was the first woman in France to obtain a PhD in physics. In the same […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor In my last post, I discussed how chemistry is the key to nanotechnology, a hot new field that’s promising to improve everything from smart phones to health care. I also mentioned that nano-sized particles are smaller than the wavelengths of light, which makes it maddeningly difficult to “see” what’s […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor Chemistry stories are inherently boring. At least, that’s how they’re often seen by the editors I pitch to. The producer of a prominent science news program once told me that every good chemistry story is really about either biology or physics. To me it always seemed kind of unfair […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor When people think of chemistry, they generally picture scientists in sterile laboratories creating chemicals that have never been seen before – nothing much ‘natural’ about that. But if you read my last post for this blog, you’ll know that I have a hard time finding a qualitative difference between […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor Are you a chemophobe? Given that you’re reading this on scienceborealis.ca, a site dedicated to science communication, I’m going to assume that you’re probably not. And why should you be? Good chemistry is the basis of romance, so much so that it’s the name of a prominent dating site. […]
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