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Twelve Nobel laureates tell us about winning chemistry’s biggest prize

Winners from the last two decades look back on the day a call from Stockholm changed their lives

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How satellite remote sensing is enhancing our understanding of Earth

Instruments in space have studied the planet’s atmosphere and surface, and are now being joined by powerful new ones, finds Andy Extance

Atoms

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Analysing a chemist’s wish-list

Analytical techniques have come a long way, but what does the future hold? Rachel Brazil asks the experts what they’d like to see

Blood cells

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Blood biopsies for cancer

Testing small amounts of blood for the presence of disease markers could revolutionise how we detect cancer. Clare Sansom reports 

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Fermi’s questions and the importance of estimation

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Knowing how to approximate the unknown is a much undervalued skill

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A chemist in the flower garden

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The beautifully complex molecules plants produce are as inspiring as the blooms themselves

Protein

Poring over biomacromolecules

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What will nanopore sequencing turn its hand to next?

Analytical chemistry is never far from the frontiers of science

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New and better tools are pushing back boundaries and changing the world

Why we need public analysts

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As the Association of Public Analysts winds up, Duncan Campbell reflects on the continued importance of the profession

Celebrating the coffee break

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One of the most surprisingly productive parts of the day

A broader view of condensates

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Exquisite insight into chromosome separation reveals the intricate relationships between molecular changes and large-scale cell processes

Surface cleaning

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UK launches £37m programme to uncover cultural heritage through chemistry

Funding will aid analysis of archaeological materials and preservation of artwork

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Twelve Nobel laureates tell us about winning chemistry’s biggest prize

Winners from the last two decades look back on the day a call from Stockholm changed their lives

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Royal Society releases hundreds of historic peer-review reports to the public

Archive includes Dorothy Hodgkin’s review of an early Crick and Watson paper on the structure of DNA

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Fermi’s questions and the importance of estimation

Knowing how to approximate the unknown is a much undervalued skill

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Why we need public analysts

As the Association of Public Analysts winds up, Duncan Campbell reflects on the continued importance of the profession

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Celebrating the coffee break

One of the most surprisingly productive parts of the day

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The importance of applying for funding early in your career

An empowering way to build a highly prized skill

A Green

Teaching enzymes new reactions through genetic code expansion and directed evolution

Anthony Green’s research group at the University of Manchester, UK, reengineers enzymes to have catalytic functions beyond those found in nature