All Columns articles – Page 7
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OpinionThe science education programme partnering with people in prison
Think Like a Scientist focuses on empowering students
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OpinionHenninger and Le Bel’s fractionator and the importance of lab culture
An undercurrent of collaboration
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OpinionCarol Robinson: ‘I really wanted to wave the flag about technicians’
The mass spectrometry trailblazer on leaving school at 16 and waving the flag for technicians
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OpinionHow much science should there be in philosophy?
A debate about metaphysics that’s crucial to how we understand the world
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OpinionBeing wrong is almost inevitable
On the tightrope of expressing your opinion, you always risk looking a fool
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OpinionCelebrating 200 editions of Classic Kit
Andrea Sella shares his favourite experiences from delving into the history of lab equipment
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OpinionEnormous enzymes expand the limits of molecular biology
Identifying the PKZILLAs, used by algae to make toxins, stretched the capabilities of current analytical methods – and the limits of our preconceptions
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OpinionWhat’s lurking in your drink and drugs?
How to test illicit substances at festivals and identify the rodent in your beer
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OpinionMedicinal chemistry’s biological blind spots
Despite advances in modern medicine, there are some big gaps in our knowledge
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OpinionWorking in the chemical industries, plural
Despite often being presented as a monolith, there’s a huge variety of activities, working practices and reaction scales across industrial research
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OpinionIjeoma Uchegbu: ‘My approach is always to be kind’
The innovative nanoscientist on the power of kindness and how she scrubbed eugenicists from campus buildings
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OpinionLetters: August 2024
Readers share their connections to the Flixborough disaster, discuss the importance of inorganic neurochemistry and more
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OpinionWhat science communication can learn from a summer of sport
Alice Motion suggests ways scientists can take inspiration from how events like the Olympics engage with viewers
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OpinionScience needs to get its house in order when it comes to energy use and waste
Labs have an outsized environmental footprint but solutions are within reach
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OpinionThe power of a printed chart
Even in this online era, some things are still best kept on paper
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OpinionCan supercapacitors be the next energy superheroes?
Offering complementary properties to batteries, their time might be round the corner
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OpinionHow hoarding knowledge is hurting the industry in the long run
Sharing results that are not commercially viable would speed up research
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OpinionTriggering a nuclear chain reaction
How Leo Szilard’s concept emerged from a rich interchange of ideas across disciplinary silos
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