Philip Ball
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OpinionBreaking the carbon cycle
Focusing on new technologies to tackle climate change could allow policymakers to dodge their own responsibilities
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Chemical computers question the logic of life
Circuits of chemicals could carry out calculations
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Machine-learning Mendeleevs have rediscovered the periodic table
Exposing new dimensions in the relationships between elements
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What happens when life has a limited vocabulary?
The longest synthetic genome shows us life is more complicated than just learning your AGCs
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Storytelling matters in science
Communicating ideas needs a narrative to get the point across
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Does science need democracy to flourish?
Evidence shows good work can survive even the harshest regimes
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Whose periodic table is it anyway?
Dmitri Mendeleev’s table was not the first – but it’s the one that matters
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The physicist's guide to biology
How Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? overlooked the central science
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Preserving the Naica Cave of Crystals
Visitors are changing the chemistry of a natural wonder of the world
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The chemistry that inspired H.G. Wells
How the science fiction author borrowed real science to create unreal worlds
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The scientists who create life
Chemistry has created life for 100 years – but where can it lead us?
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Revisiting Richard Dawkins' idea of replication
Why The selfish gene is only part of the story
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