All Columns articles – Page 61
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OpinionHow to unstopper a stopper
Years as a practical chemist can come in useful when trying to unjam a dram
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OpinionMonopoly money
Dean Baker says it’s time to start talking seriously about the way in which pharma is funded
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OpinionProtecting patients at all costs
Suffering stagnant output, and beset by patent expiries and spiralling costs, drug discovery is in poor health. Simon Campbell prescribes a remedy
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OpinionThe automatic chemist
Philip Ball considers the creation of a collective chemical brain, and what it might dream up
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OpinionA warning for Iberoamerican science
Latin America’s scientific spring is in jeopardy says Carmelo Polino, as education systems fail a disinterested generation
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OpinionBlack crystal arts
The secret tricks needed to coax out crystals hark back to our alchemical past
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OpinionFlashback: 1987 – Refuseniks
Scientists who applied to emigrate from the Soviet Union were refused exit visas and demoted
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OpinionStanding up for chemistry
The RSC’s president, Lesley Yellowlees, sets out her ambitions for the coming years
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Opinion
Nullius in verba
Philip Ball asks how much of the published literature you should believe. Not much, by some accounts
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OpinionPlaying with water
Tom Waller discusses the science and technology that can help make the difference between swimming and winning
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