All Chemistry World articles in August 2025
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OpinionI’m sorry, I’ve forgotten the words
The challenges of learning chemistry in your non-native language
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Opinion‘Creative destruction’ in the chemistry lab
Some obsolete lab equipment is quickly replaced, while other items are stubbornly persistent. What modern tech will survive to the 2060s?
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CareersHow to use an individual development plan to advance your career
Four steps to assess your current position and set your goals
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OpinionLetters: August 2025
Readers continue celebrating benzene and debating the use of glyphosate
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CareersEven in difficult times, leaders should inspire hope
Finding positives is a vital part of leadership
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OpinionLearning about chemistry in prenatal class
Opportunities for infographics to contribute to health literacy
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OpinionThe atomic weights of most chemical elements aren’t constant
But those values are constantly refined
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FeatureHow atomic weights change with scientific understanding
Why do the atomic weights on the periodic table keep changing? Kit Chapman meets the team behind the decimal places
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FeatureSerial femtosecond crystallography reveals protein dynamics in real time
Proteins are constantly moving, but our structures of them are static. Clare Sansom talks to the researchers using free-electron lasers to make time-resolved structures
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OpinionChemistry ‘deserts’ threaten to push poorer undergraduates out
Course and departmental closures in the UK are creating ‘cold spots’, leaving students high and dry
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NewsChemistry ‘cold spots’ emerging across the UK, RSC warns
Some regions face a future with fewer chemists
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NewsIupac launches guiding principles that it hopes will enable responsible chemistry
Chemistry’s nomenclature body lays out eight precepts which chemists should live by
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ResearchOrganometallic compound found to break textbook principle
A ferrocene-derived complex is a further exception to the 18-electron rule
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NewsResearcher severely injured in 2016 Hawaii lab explosion receives £5 million settlement
Thea Ekins-Coward lost an arm in an experiment with unsafe apparatus
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OpinionThe fungal source of Titian’s rich reds
Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus