All articles by Chemistry World – Page 10
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OpinionLetters: October 2017
Your opinions on redefining the kilogram, timing viscosity and Victorian anaesthetics
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PodcastA Course in Deception by Jane Rieger – Book club
Academia has everything from altering results to murder, at least in this work of fiction
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PodcastFrankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus – Book club
If you’re thinking of making a monster from dead body parts then this week’s book club podcast is for you
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OpinionLetters: August 2017
You weigh in on Grenfell towers, mandatory retirement and plastics pollution
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PodcastWe Have No Idea by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson – Book club
Everything you need to know about everything we don’t yet know
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WebinarBusiness across borders
View our panel discussion, looking at the challenges of operating a chemistry business with an international perspective
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PodcastThe Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols – Book club
Apparently we’ve all had enough of experts. We discuss how we came to think we know it all
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CareersWalking the Planck: the most-pirated chemistry journals on Sci-Hub
Papers from Nature have been downloaded over 234,000 times from Sci-Hub, making it the most-pirated journal on the site
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OpinionLetters: June 2017
The Welsh scientist who belongs on a tea towel, the origins of soda and 1980s microscopy
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PodcastBring Back the King by Helen Pilcher – Book club
We discuss Bring back the king by Helen Pilcher and learn of the difficulties and possible benefits of bringing animals back from extinction
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CareersGo west: the impact of scientist movement in Europe
Despite migration of scientists, eastern European paper output has increased
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CareersPeople power: EU chemical workforce and industry turnover
According to the European Chemical Industry Council, the EU chemical industry has a £450 billion turnover and some 1.1 million direct employees
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OpinionLetters: May 2017
Your concerns about the UK leaving Euratom, London’s air pollution and gold poisoning
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PodcastThe Telomere Effect by Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel – Book club
The active steps you can take to live longer and younger
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NewsNews from the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco
News stories from the 253rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society
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OpinionLetters: April 2017
The wrong terminology for antimicrobial resistance, and which scientist belongs on a tea towel
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PodcastThe Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos – Book club
Driverless cars and bloodless wars are just two of the promises of machines that learn, the subject of this month’s podcast
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OpinionLetters: March 2017
Your answers to an iron dilemma, electric car output and whether we need to teach chemists maths
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PodcastFurry Logic by Martin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher – Book club
This month we discuss the physics of turtles, shrimps and, of course, cats