All Columns articles – Page 55
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OpinionNovelty hits top the charts
There’s no formula for citation success, says Philip Ball, but high-impact tracts mix the classical with the unconventional
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OpinionMarcfortines B & C
Paul Docherty ponders a tasty cheeseboard as a source of synthetic inspiration
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Nobel double whammy for chemistry
Is ‘they don’t do “real” chemistry’ the worst argument ever?
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OpinionNatural born chemists
Redesigning nature’s catalysts is tantalising but tricky, says Derek Lowe
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OpinionFlashback: 1988 – British Biotechnology
The excitement surrounding the Oxford based firm was unfortunately not to last
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OpinionExplosive mixtures
Nobel’s name was made in explosives, but what about the chemistry behind them?
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OpinionThe judgement of your peers
A bit of hindsight goes a long way in measuring scientific quality, says Mark Peplow
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Chemistry's climate of scepticism
Philip Ball asks why chemistry seems to have more than its share of global warming’s opponents
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OpinionCrystallography 101
Philip Ball reflects on a century of progress in the science of structure
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Divided by a common language
American and British English may differ, but data has no borders
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OpinionFlashback: 1983 – a new award from the RSC
The Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship was launched to encourage research in organometallic chemistry or coordination chemistry of transition metals
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OpinionClearing the air about the hydrogen economy
Hydrogen as an important fuel is no pipe dream, says Martin Smith
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OpinionThe great chemistry cookoff
Is the comparison between chemistry and cooking really an insult?
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OpinionWhat's the use?
Not every reaction can be run in a bucket, says Derek Lowe, but there are limits to what should be classed as ‘useful’
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Possible versus practical
Hype and fanciful predictions are distracting society from finding realistic solutions, say William Banholzer and Mark Jones
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Misconduct: on the blog and in the open
When formal investigations of research misconduct are opaque and sluggish, it is inevitable that chemists will take to the blogs to debate suspicious papers, says Mark Peplow