All Chemistry World articles in August 2019
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OpinionLetters: August 2019
You tell us what you think about waste, thermal breaks and June Sutor’s legacy
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ReviewIncredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation
David Barrie introduces amazing animal navigators, from bacteria and butterflies to pigeons and crocodiles
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ReviewThe Science of Fate: Why Your Future is More Predictable Than You Think
Hannah Critchlow’s book is a voyage into the depths of the human mind
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OpinionMargaret Brimble: 'Spiroketals are my favourite molecules'
The New Zealand chemist on careers, creativity and why everything just has to be blue
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ReviewSuperior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini’s latest book is a powerful deconstruction of the research around race
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OpinionAre new drugs better than existing ones?
Should companies be made to change the way they run clinical trials?
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OpinionTales from the NMR lab
Why your friendly magnet facility is the social heart of the chemistry department
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OpinionBringing video games into the protein fold
Citizen scientists use a computer game to design brand new proteins
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ReviewExhibition: Dark Matter
Science Gallery London brings together artists and scientists to ponder the mysteries of the universe
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OpinionCutting-edge history
Rewriting the textbooks is our duty, because credit and recognition are much more than a reward for the individual. We use them to show what we value, and what matters to us – what lies behind us to be discovered is just as important as what lies ahead
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OpinionKathleen Lonsdale’s crystallography tables
No princes were needed on the quest for structure factors
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Opinion(When) will we go to the moon again?
Will people follow in the footsteps of the Apollo astronauts any time soon?
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OpinionMisconduct investigators, show your work
Weighting transparency and confidentiality in scientific misconduct investigations
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OpinionFluorine: the T rex of the periodic table
Pass out the nickel superalloy reactor kit, it’s time to tame that most reactive of elements
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FeaturePlutonium: The element factory
Glenn Seaborg’s lab at Berkeley discovered plutonium – an element with uses beyond the deadly one we know well
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OpinionMachine-learning Mendeleevs have rediscovered the periodic table
Exposing new dimensions in the relationships between elements
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FeatureFiring up an air pollution problem
Wild fires adversely affect air quality nearby and far beyond. Nina Notman investigates this escalating problem
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ResearchMolecular amplifier makes purest chiral Möbius aromatic
Stack of chiral components creates most enantiopure twisted aromatic ring ever made