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OpinionIs industry getting more or less safe?
US figures suggest an increase in incidents involving serious injuries and fatalities in recent years
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PuzzleQuick chemistry crossword #105
Thinking like the Italian renaissance polymath, astronomer, artist and physicist will help with this quick chemistry crossword
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PuzzleCryptic chemistry crossword #141
’Welcome on stage some peculiar things (6)’ to solve this cryptic chemistry crossword
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CareersHow a binational PhD opens two doors to a future research career
Top tips from Suvarna Sujilkumar, who is currently pursuing a Binational PhD at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram, India and Julius Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Germany
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CareersFrom baseball to chemistry, and back again
With a lifelong passion for baseball and love of science, Jake Bruml began his career in biotech but transitioned to direct scouting for the Boston Red Sox
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PuzzleChemistry wordoku #149
Find the American chemist who devoted much of her energy to improving chemical education in Mississippi in this sudoku-inspired puzzle
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PuzzleCryptic chemistry crossword #140
Seek the ’Neat collection of animals (6)’ in this cryptic chemistry crossword
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OpinionThe art of not letting the lab burn down
Behind every experiment is a technician quietly preventing catastrophe
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BusinessRewriting genetic medicine
Scribe Therapeutics will soon begin clinical trials for its epigenetic treatment to tackle ‘bad’ cholesterol
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ResearchWatching unpaired electrons at work
From building the Centre for Pulse EPR at Imperial to probing electron transfer in real time, Maxie Rößler is pushing an overlooked technique into the spotlight
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OpinionJonathan Clayden: ‘I like to feel that we have set the curriculum rather than followed the curriculum’
The co-author of the much-loved Organic Chemistry shares his insights on creating a chemistry textbook
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OpinionRewriting the textbooks – authors tell us how they do it
Peter Atkins, Catherine Housecroft and Jonathan Clayden guide us through the changing world of textbooks
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OpinionCatherine Housecroft: ‘Undergraduates do not want to buy big, heavy textbooks’
The author of the authoritative Inorganic Chemistry discusses how changing student attitudes have led the shift to digital resources
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OpinionPeter Atkins: ‘Rather than a single author book with an author’s voice, it’s becoming more of a committee construction’
The author of the venerable Physical Chemistry on how writing chemistry textbooks has changed over his career
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PuzzleCryptic chemistry crossword #139
To solve this cryptic chemistry crossword, you will need to ’catch the inventor (4)’
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PuzzleChemistry wordoku #148
Find the Cuba-born American chemist particularly associated with fulluerene research in the solution to this sudoku-inspired puzzle
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CareersMaking lab equipment more accessible for chemists with physical disabilities
‘Chemical laboratories are often designed around a very narrow idea of standard talent,’ says one academic striving to make such spaces more inclusive
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OpinionWhat kinds of reactions do you do most?
Variety may be the spice of life, but there’s space for the boring but effective