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ReviewRobots in Space: The Secret Lives of Our Planetary Explorers
The fantastic space adventures of Perseverance and its cousins
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Review
Ice: Tales from a Disappearing World
What is it like to do research in a remote part of Greenland
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Careers
The facts of being a fiction-writing chemist
Meet the chemists making creative use of their scientific skills
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Article
Julia Lermontova: an early pioneer
Katharine Sanderson tells the story of a 19th century Russian chemist who made contributions across a range of chemistry
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Review
The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science
An extremely well-researched monograph containing stories that bear an eerie resemblance to today’s politicised clinical trials
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Podcast
Book club – The Poison Trials by Alisha Rankin
Clinical trials have come a long way since the 16th century
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Research
Linking chemistry with surgery to detect cancerous cells in situ
Livia Schiavinato Eberlin explains how her team has developed a hand-held device for surgeons that analyses tissue samples on a mass spectrometer mid-operation
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News
UK funding agency hack could be ‘legally and intellectually significant’
Data breach hits grant proposals across UK Research and Innovation
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Webinar
Addressing gender parity across the Commonwealth
Join us for the launch of Commonwealth Chemistry and a webinar to discuss gender parity challenges across the Commonwealth
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Review
Black Hole Survival Guide
Like a brain-twisting introductory physics lecture, but in the best way
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Review
Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today
Your punk rock guide to science
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Review
Film: Forgotten Genius
The story of a Black chemist’s incredible scientific accomplishments in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles in early 20th century US
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News
Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, who coined the term Anthropocene, dies
Cutzen’s passing means that all three scientists who won the 1995 chemistry Nobel prize for their ozone formation and decomposition work are gone
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Review
How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything
What’s the climate impact of a Google search, a return trip from London to Hong Kong or having a child?
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News
MIT faculty rally around colleague arrested for Chinese government links
Letter to university’s president signed by 170 faculty members debunks charges against nanotechnologist Gang Chen
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News
Prominent Chinese immunologist and research integrity leader cleared of scientific misconduct
Investigation finds problems with images but concludes that Xuetao Cao is not guilty of research fraud
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Review
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Like a walk in the forest accompanied by an expert biologist
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News
Royal Society of Chemistry retracts 70 fake ‘paper mill’ articles
Extensive investigations found systematic production of fraudulent research
