All Chemistry World articles in April 2020
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ReviewOn Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
From why brains are like search engine algorithms to tips on boosting your memory
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Review
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
A timely, provocative and necessary book
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Review
Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells
A must-read for chemists and anyone passionate about nature, food, drinks and cooking
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Review
Sapiens – A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind
Reimagining Yuval Noah Harari’s bestseller as an approachable graphic novel
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Review
Frankissstein: A Love Story
Like a modern-day rollercoaster ride through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this novel is an exploration of the scientific community’s incremental crawl towards evolutionary perfection
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Opinion
How Flint tapped in to community action
How citizen science and activism can campaign for clean and safe drinking water
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Opinion
Inside Flint’s water crisis
Evidence of lead contamination was dismissed as resulting from a laboratory refurbishment
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News
Explainer: Why is mixing cleaning chemicals such a bad idea?
Accidents involving cleaning products have been on the rise this year, most likely due to the Covid-19 pandemic
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Review
Letters from an Astrophysicist
A collection of two decades-worth of correspondences, this book reveals humanity’s fascination with the stars
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Opinion
Poisons leave no mushroom for error
Will you enjoy a delicious treat, or endure excruciating agony?
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Review
Film: Human Nature
The story of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing technology, and where it could and should take humanity
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Opinion
Water funny liquid
Raise a glass to the essential ingredient to life, of endless fascination to chemists
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Opinion
Letters: April 2020
Your safety warnings, XPS clarifications and memories of Theodora Greene
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Feature
The weirdness of water
Can we explain the strange properties of water by thinking of it as two different liquids? Rachel Brazil dives into the ongoing debate
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Opinion
Advocating through graduate school
Advocacy may not be taught in graduate school, but it can be learned
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Sponsored
Driving drug development success
An upcoming JMP webinar will show how data-driven decision-making can improve predictability and boost efficiency
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Review
Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put In Us and On Us
George Zaidan’s first book sets out to disentangle the confusing – and often conflicting – advice surrounding everyday items from processed food to sunscreen and beyond.
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Podcast
Book Club – Ingredients by George Zaidan
We discuss George Zaidan’s Ingredients, a book that promises to make chemistry more fun than Hogwarts
