All Columns articles – Page 12
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OpinionScience as a product of culture
The role of background beliefs and assumptions in the development of science
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OpinionHidden details in iconic portrait of Lavoisiers reveal fears of coming revolution
As the French Revolution neared the Lavoisiers were reimagined as scientific progressives rather than out of touch aristocrats
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OpinionThe price of failure
Drug market structures and high R&D failure rates can tempt companies into bad pricing behaviour
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OpinionRights and wrongs
Universities need to consider exactly what postgraduates’ employment status is
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OpinionAppreciating sterics
How can chemists quantify steric effects when they struggle to define them?
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OpinionPutting combustion into reverse
Unburning carbon dioxide economically and at scale is a tough problem, but potentially world-changing
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OpinionScience is political
The personal values held by scientists should influence the accolades they receive
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OpinionThe human cost of inaction on chemical waste
Chemists must press the UN to act and set up a body to deal with the world’s toxic legacy
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OpinionChemical upcycling
Economics is central to invigorating the transition to a circular economy for plastic
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OpinionWhat’s revolutionary about the Chemical Revolution?
How an event in chemistry shaped philosophy
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OpinionOpening up a cellular black box
Working out how biomolecular condensates work may reveal a lot about the success or failure of different drugs
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OpinionThe side effects of being unique
Even the largest clinical trials won’t capture all possible bad reactions to a drug – we need pharmacovigilance
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OpinionEmbracing the exposome
Analytical research strategies are evolving to keep up with the chemical complexities of our world