Commentary – Page 9
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The challenge of getting science into video games
Tim Wicksteed reveals the choices he faced while making a game based on the pharmaceutical industry
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Towards a new plastics economy
Global change is needed to avert disaster, says the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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Why we need an allergic reaction
Michael Walker calls for a grand vision to protect people with food allergy
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Can we wait for e-cigarette trials?
Safety data is needed but is not a reason to ignore vaping now, says Thomas Hartung
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Toxicity is a hazardous waste
We must teach students how to avoid environmental impact rather than accept itas an inherent part of chemistry, argues John Warner
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Cutting the science travel footprint
Scientists should think about their own carbon footprint if they want to inspire public action on climate change, says Stuart Capstick
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The only way is ethics
Jeffrey Kovac debates whether recent cases of ethical misconduct mean chemistry needs to take a new approach to regulation
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Rare earth magnates
China’s monopoly on production has a global impact, argues David Abraham
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Weighty decisions
Juris Meija explains why a small change to the atomic weight of an element can make a huge difference to science
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Rooting out sexism
If we are going to address gender equality in science, we need to recognise our own biases, says Nicola Gaston
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The illusion of self-correction
Ferric Fang and Arturo Casadevall ask how science deals with alleged research misconduct
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Rethinking risk assessment
Toxicologists must embrace better ways of accounting for low dose effects, argue Annamaria Colacci and Nicole Kleinstreuer
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Experiments beyond the laboratory
Real world ‘experiments’ are a much needed link between scientists and society, argues Matthias Gross
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A story of structure
As the Cambridge Structural Database reaches its 50th year, Colin Groom gives us some of its greatest ‘hits’
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The postdoc problem: too many, or the wrong kind?
Are concerns about postdoc proliferation valid? Maybe we just need to make their training more diverse, suggests Keith Micoli
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Fluorine in space
Henrik Jönsson explains why fluorine holds a unique place in the understanding the history of the universe
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Chemical linguistics
Chemistry is not language, explains Michael Gordin. But the metaphor is useful nonetheless
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A prescription for chemists
The public seem to confuse chemist with pharmacist, so how does a pharmacist feel about this?
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Better cooking through chemistry
Science and food have been courting each other for over a decade, says Ali Bouzari. It’s time to commit
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The nuclear danger of iodine
It may not be an element you think of as problematic. But, as Mark Foreman explains, iodine causes very complicated problems in nuclear accidents