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Opinion
Community minded
Helen Pain discusses how the RSC is serving its community today, and preparing for tomorrow
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Feature
Supporting the chemistry community
The Chemists’ Community Fund – formerly the Benevolent Fund – has been helping people for 100 years. Rachel Brazil looks at how it works, now it may be more needed than ever before
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Review
Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention
An informative book that is more technical account than personal biography
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Research
Luxury blue paint pigment catalyses its own ‘disease’
Discovery could help preserve Renaissance masterpieces
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Review
Game: Craft Elements
A rare example of a science based puzzler that focuses on real-world complexity
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Review
Why Trust Science?
Eloquent, insightful and bold, this book is a must-read in our post-truth time
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Podcast
DMT – Dimethyltryptamine
Georgia Mills investigates the psychoactive found in ayahuasca that may mirror near-death experiences
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Business
How Covid-19 is changing drug manufacturing
Catalent is adapting, focusing on employee safety and supply chain security
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Review
Film: The Ball Method
An impressive short film about early 20th century chemist Alice Ball whose groundbreaking scientific contributions were only recently recognised
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Opinion
PhD researcher mental health matters – now more than ever
And improving it is vital for the future of chemistry
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Article
Alice Ball’s treatment for leprosy
Nina Notman tells the overlooked story of historic African-American chemist Alice Ball who developed the first partially-effective treatment for leprosy
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Webinar
Kindness – Building a better chemistry culture
Join us to explore the role kindness can play in making chemistry more inclusive and protecting mental health
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Research
Keep The Scream dry to preserve its pigments, chemical analysis suggests
Moisture – not light – hastens the degradation of yellow cadmium colours in Edvard Munch’s 1910 painting
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Review
From Science Fiction to Science Fact: How Writers of the Past Invented Our Present
An enjoyable exploration of the parallels between science fiction and science as long as you don’t expect a definite proof of how how sci-fi created the future
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Opinion
Nazarov cyclisation
We are all shaped by the opportunities afforded us, by the social structures and politics of our day
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Review
TV series: Unnatural Selection
From biohackers to malaria-fighting mosquitos, this Netflix documentary looks at the powerful yet controversial technology of genetic engineering
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News
Statistician Adrian Smith to be next president of the Royal Society
Director of the Alan Turing Institute will take up the post in November
