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Careers
How to teach university-level chemistry well
Five tips for educating and inspiring university students
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Opinion
Inertia, decisions and robots
Our cognitive biases can make it difficult to choose what’s best for science
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Opinion
When the blood keeps on flowing
While warfarins can be lifesaving, superwarfarins are deadly – and not just to rodents
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Opinion
Holes in the ‘holey graphyne’ story
The challenges – and importance – of questioning published results
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Opinion
Heated crystals jump to enantiomeric separation
Chiral asparagine monohydrate crystals can segregate by handedness – if you arrange them carefully first
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Opinion
Letters: April 2024
Readers discuss the handedness of DNA, celebrate the Explosives Act and reminisce about childhood experiments
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Opinion
Nichols’ radiometer and discovering that radiation exerts pressure
A sensitive reflection of light pressure
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Opinion
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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Opinion
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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Opinion
Water isn’t normal
Despite its familiarity, water is a chemical oddity. But that’s what makes it fascinating
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Opinion
Harnessing biodiversity through natural products research in the Philippines
Collaborative projects aim to produce cheaper and more effective medicines
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Opinion
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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Opinion
From one sinking ship to another?
Biogen abandoning Alzheimer’s antibody aducanumab is unusual, but hardly surprising, says Derek Lowe
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Opinion
High entropy or just complex?
Several elements mixed in a single crystal phase isn’t necessarily a high entropy material
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Opinion
Crystal prophecies
There’s no guarantee that making a thermodynamically feasible structure will be easy, or even possible