The latest issue of the monthly Spotlight column over on the physical sciences section of Intute is now online, this time featuring research from the earth sciences, the greening of chemistry in the developing world, and humans acquitted over Neanderthal extinction.
Chemists go veggie
Chemists working on tight budgets in developing countries may be able to swap flasks of laboratory reagents for extracts of celery and potatoes, or cassava and carrots and other inexpensive, …
Neanderthals more than severely put out by bad weather
Climate change saw off the last of the Neanderthals from their final stronghold on the Iberian peninsula thousands of years ago, according to …
Slumbering Yellowstone snores
Beneath the beautiful Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming lies a slumbering giant, a supervolcano who wakes every few hundred thousand years and wreaks havoc across hundreds of …