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NewsReport calls for urgent action to tackle predatory publishers
Range of measures proposed to combat exploitation of academia
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Opinion
William Knox, the only Black supervisor in the Manhattan Project
The story of the Knox family is one of education overcoming adversity, finds Kit Chapman
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News
Academic publishers collaborate to collect diversity data
52 organisations sign up to standardised process to gain clearer understanding of author, reviewer and editor demographics
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Business
Ukraine’s chemicals industry survives weeks of war
Russian invasion pushes firms to the limits as facilities are damaged and distribution networks break down
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Podcast
Book club – Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez
An Indigenous vision for environmental science
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News
China grapples with lab safety following huge growth in student numbers
Study exposes serious incidents and deaths at universities
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News
Organocatalysis Nobel laureate will give prize money to underprivileged students
2021 chemistry Nobel prize winner David MacMillan founds charity in his parents’ honour
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Opinion
Margaret Melhase Fuchs and the radioactive isotope
Rebecca Trager tells the story of a brilliant female undergraduate who discovered caesium-137 in 1941 but was blocked from pursuing a PhD
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News
Scientific societies fail to capture members’ true diversity
US Stem organisations urged to collect more inclusive demographic data to better support distinct underrepresented groups
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Careers
How to find a suitable PhD supervisor
Five tips for identifying who will give you the support you need
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Opinion
Supawan Tantayanon: ‘I designed my own portable lab’
The green chemistry pioneer on making labs safer, designing a portable lab and her unusual way of cooking
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Careers
Security versus employability
Safe isn’t better if it doesn’t allow you to develop professionally
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Opinion
How online conferences add together accessibility and inclusivity
Harnessing technology to increase diversity
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News
Racial inequality report highlights ‘alarming’ loss of ethnic minority chemists
Royal Society of Chemistry vows to tackle underrepresentation in the UK with initial £1.5 million fund
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Opinion
How does your garden grow?
With the help of a handful elements from the periodic table, of course
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News
Researchers around the world band together to help fleeing Ukrainian scientists
Schemes spring up to put refugee scientists in European and North American labs
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Feature
The curious case of the ancient brain
A 2000 year old decapitated Yorkshire man and the ancient proteins in his preserved brain might provide clues to modern diseases, as Hayley Bennett discovers
