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Breaking the cycle of teach, test, forget
A focus on exams makes it harder for students to cultivate a deep understanding of their subject
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Inertia, decisions and robots
Our cognitive biases can make it difficult to choose what’s best for science
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When the blood keeps on flowing
While warfarins can be lifesaving, superwarfarins are deadly – and not just to rodents
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Holes in the ‘holey graphyne’ story
The challenges – and importance – of questioning published results
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Heated crystals jump to enantiomeric separation
Chiral asparagine monohydrate crystals can segregate by handedness – if you arrange them carefully first
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Letters: April 2024
Readers discuss the handedness of DNA, celebrate the Explosives Act and reminisce about childhood experiments
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Nichols’ radiometer and discovering that radiation exerts pressure
A sensitive reflection of light pressure
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Allotrope or not?
Loose terminology causes disquiet among guardians of the chemical nomenclature
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Jani Ingram: ‘We have seen wells with uranium levels higher than the drinking water standard’
The environmental chemist on addressing pollution of Navajo waterways from legacy mining, her life off the reservation and a puke green Datsun
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Watching the water with the help of citizen scientists
Why we should all be keeping an eye on our water supply
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Water isn’t normal
Despite its familiarity, water is a chemical oddity. But that’s what makes it fascinating
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Harnessing biodiversity through natural products research in the Philippines
Collaborative projects aim to produce cheaper and more effective medicines
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How we set up the Chemical Society of The Gambia
Overcoming red tape and technical hurdles to bring together the country’s chemists
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Linnemann’s baskets and distillation in the early days of understanding equilibrium
A distillation method that came out in the wash
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From one sinking ship to another?
Biogen abandoning Alzheimer’s antibody aducanumab is unusual, but hardly surprising, says Derek Lowe
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Making chemicals safe and sustainable
The green transition is an opportunity to also make industry simpler and safer
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Letters: March 2024
Readers provide an update on a band keratopathy project, share their love… and then there’s fireworks