All Columns articles – Page 8
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Knocking down paywalls
President Biden’s surprise announcement ending paywalls for federally-funded research by 2026 has left publishers scrambling to respond
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Why AlphaFold won’t revolutionise drug discovery
Protein structure prediction is a hard problem, but even harder ones remain
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Reflections on rainwater
Water in the world’s pristine wildernesses is already unsafe to drink by new PFAS pollution standards
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May cause side effects
The dose makes the poison, but understanding unwanted drug interactions is complicated
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Farsighted science
The Webb telescope looks set to deliver on its promise to change the way we see the universe
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Can scientists communicate better with comedy?
It’s no joke: scientists and comedians are collaborating to share research
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Alzheimer’s, amyloid and abandoned antibodies
Biogen’s aducanumab is stumbling into obscurity. Where does that leave the amyloid hypothesis?
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Energy is the Achilles’ heel of carbon capture technologies
Efforts to trap carbon dioxide could consume a huge amount of forecast renewable energy growth
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Catalogues of complexity
The tangled web of fine chemicals supply frequently throws up surprises
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Reformed and refreshed
Chemistry comes out of the latest Research Excellence Framework exercise looking good
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Exit strategy
Overcoming a major setback showed Derek Lowe could make it through graduate school
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A spanner in the works
Most drugs work by breaking or stopping something, rather than by making something faster or better
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Diversifying in two dimensions
Artisanal assemblies are opening up pathways to exciting and exotic phenomena
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Scents and sentimentality
Deprived of familiar lab odours, Derek Lowe indulges in some nasal nostalgia
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What next for the US’s China Initiative after the case against MIT’s Gang Chen falls apart?
The US’s probe into researchers’ ties to China and potential theft of intellectual property stands on a knife edge
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The law of conservation of data
AI and machine learning are useful and powerful, but they need high quality data inputs that aren’t available yet for drug discovery