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BusinessStepping towards diversity in industry
Companies are re-affirming their commitment to inclusivity, even as the US government obstructs education efforts
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Opinion
Improving executive diversity is a priority
A few hiring decisions could make a big difference at leadership level
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Opinion
Ethical challenge
Should researchers infect healthy people with Sars-CoV-2 to speed up vaccine testing?
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Review
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Accounts of grief and joy, independence and interdependence, challenge and transformative creativity
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Business
Stretching liquid crystals to the limit with LC AuxeTec
The unintuitive properties of LC AuxeTec’s materials mean they thicken when stretched, and could be exploited in body armour and skyscraper windows
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Webinar
LGBT+ inclusivity – Building a better chemistry culture
Join us to discuss how the chemical sciences can best support and retain LGBT+ individuals
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News
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to open first chemistry lab in its 130-year history
Renowned molecular biology institute is bringing click chemistry to drug discovery
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Podcast
Book club – The End of Everything
It’s the end times for our universe with five scenarios that of how it might meet its ultimate demise
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Research
‘Forgotten’ Egyptian blue pigment found in Raphael fresco
Scientists speculate that knowledge of making the ‘first synthetic pigment’ wasn’t quite as lost as some have supposed
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Review
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Universe-ending scenarios made to fit our tiny human minds
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News
Mario Molina, who warned of CFC threat to the ozone layer, dies
Atmospheric chemist’s work led to the phasing out of ozone-depleting substances
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Review
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons
A journey through history and science that lets readers to work out their maths muscles
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News
Crispr–Cas9 gene-editing inventors win chemistry Nobel prize
2020 chemistry award goes to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier
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News
Live – Crispr wins the 2020 chemistry Nobel prize
Join us for all the latest news, views and developments on this year’s top chemistry prize
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News
Medicine Nobel prize goes to discoverers of hepatitis C virus
Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share prize for uncovering the disease-causing agent affecting more than 71 million people
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Opinion
Chemical detective work shows its power in latest Novichok saga
Analytical chemistry’s forensic feats are astounding but so commonplace now that we’ve become blasé to them
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Research
Chemistry Nobel predictions range from organometallic chemistry to DNA synthesis
Crispr is favoured by chemists while publication analysis forecasts winners working on nanocrystals, organometallic chemistry and supramolecular self-assembly
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Research
Searching for superconductors with supercomputers
What if most materials are superconductors under the right conditions, wonders José Flores-Livas
