All Chemistry World articles in August 2020
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ReviewDrink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
A book questioning the normalcy of drinking, exploring personal and policy responses to excessive alcohol consumption
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ReviewThe Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception
A book that aims to opens readers’ eyes to the fact-bending methods corporations employ to make profit
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ReviewHalf Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
The story of a radioactive element from its rise to a cure-all ingredient to the downfall of an entire industry
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PodcastBook club – Half Lives by Lucy Jane Santos
From radioactive spa treatments to liquid sunshine, this book traces a forgotten part of chemistry history
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ReviewDeath By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
A book for anyone with an interest in science, death, Elizabethan literature and British history – or all of the above
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ArticleInnovating in complex environments
The benefits of digital tools and automation with no programming required
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OpinionQuestioning European policy on alkyl mesylate impurities
Policies based on false hypotheses can persist in spite of overwhelming contradictory data
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OpinionRewriting the narratives surrounding radical transformations
Don’t let tired clichés get in the way of selective and sustainable chemistry
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OpinionLetters: August 2020
Readers share views on the coding crisis and meritocracy, and reminisce about a hazardous career
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OpinionMonitoring climate change through sensors in surfboards
The Smartfin project takes advantage of the time surfers spend in the ocean
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FeatureThe function of folding
Can chemists make molecules that fold up as well as proteins? Rachel Brazil talks to the people trying to create foldamers
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OpinionJanine Cossy: ‘Negative results are more important’
The synthetic chemist on champagne, art and living in Paris
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OpinionLooking beyond the next wave
We need to apply lessons from Covid-19 to tackle antimicrobial resistance and climate change
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OpinionMaking light of bioluminescence
Glowing may be a side-effect of a very different original purpose
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BusinessReducing food waste by touch
Mimica’s tactile food labels know better than best-before dates