
Neil Withers
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Neil Withers
@NeilWithers
Features Editor for @ChemistryWorld, so mostly tweeting about #chemistry Formerly an associate editor on @NatureChemistry. Also now @[email protected]






❓ Question 8, from Professor Brian Josephson: youtube.com/watch?v=b1ZeJm… 9/10



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!)


My latest @newscientist cartoon.

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. patreon.com/posts/life-loa…

Satellite images show deforestation toll of mining in Indonesia Click here to read: thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024…


Dream weaving: bringing “Inception” to reality


