Tabitha Watson
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Past articles by Tabitha:
Glass: the chemist’s best friend
Where would we be without our glassware? Tabitha Watson looks through the history and current state of chemistry’s favourite amorphous solid → Read More
Chlorine trifluoride
Tabitha Watson introduces a poisonous, corrosive and extremely reactive compound that will start ‘roaring reactions’ with almost anything → Read More
Moving to north east England
Think the UK chemical industry is just in the south? Think again → Read More
Israeli company Haifa Chemicals shuttered
Lack of ammonia storage facility leads to colossal losses → Read More
Frankenstein: annotated for scientists, engineers and creators of all kinds
Mary Shelley Edited by David H Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert MIT Press 2017 | 320pp | £14.95 ISBN 9780262533287 This edition of Frankenstein pairs Mary Shelley’s original and classic text with a large helping of annotations – in the form of footnotes – aimed at ‘scientists, engineers and creators of all kinds’. At first glance, it seems like a somewhat glossier version of the books you… → Read More
1D nanowire is world’s worst conductor
Siloxane wires could be a handy component for nanoscale electronics → Read More
Neuroderm to be purchased by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma for $1.1 billion
Japanese pharmaceutical giant to acquire Israel’s Neuroderm in record breaking deal → Read More
Better regulation needed after rise in dietary supplement poisonings
US poison control centres receive a call every 24 minutes concerning supplements → Read More
DDT surprises with new, overlooked form of the pesticide
Highly controversial pesticide has a second more lethal crystal form missed for almost 80 years → Read More
Robotic chemist explores chemical space
Robotic system can autonomously carry out and analyse chemical reactions → Read More
Bismuth drug structure solved
After over three centuries of mystery, the structure of bismuth subgallate has finally been uncovered → Read More
Giant ‘supersnowflakes’ start to lay
Self-assembled supramolecular structures overcome previous limitations → Read More