Documentary film describes a little-known three-week stay in Italy to find new sources of radium

Marie Curie’s 1918 Research Tour of Italy

Tales of Olympic Marathons
Strychnine and brandy instead of water, women in the marathon, from about 40 km to exactly 42.195 km, hyponatremia, cannabinoid receptors

65th Birthday: Wolfram Koch
Theoretical chemist and long time Executive Director of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society)

Loney Clinton Gordon and the Pertussis Vaccine
African-American chemist worked on the development of an effective pertussis vaccine

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Lord Kelvin, the Coldest Possible Temperature, and the Age of the Earth
Irish-born Scottish physicist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor made seminal contributions to thermodynamics, among many other fields

Summer Reading 2024
What to read this summer: Editors recommend fun science-related books

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The Misjudgment of Heroin
From cure-all to most notorious drug of the 20th century

Space—ChemistryViews Discoveries (06/2024)
Highlights from the chemistry community, with a special focus on Europe—This month: How does a candle burn in zero gravity? - What bacteria are on the ISS? - etc.