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FeatureRenewable energy in China
Huge investments and cutting-edge research are helping China to pioneer innovations in clean energy technologies, reports Mark Peplow
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Artificial blood
Nina Notman reports on progress towards products that can, when necessary, replace donor red blood cells
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Handheld spectrometers
Andy Extance discovers how portable infrared absorption and Raman scattering analysis tools are inspiring new uses – even within people’s homes
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Chemistry beyond Moore's Law
Can anything replace the silicon in our mobile phones and laptops? The hunt is on, reports Hayley Bennett
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Life on other planets
A series of missions to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn has revealed their potential to harbour life. Nina Notman looks to the skies
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Carolyn Bertozzi
One-time heavy rocker Carolyn Bertozzi has made a name for herself with hit papers and sound science. Sarah Houlton charts her path to success
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Can we control reactions with electric fields?
Think beyond the hot plate and stirrer – the consequences could be revolutionary, says Joshua Howgego
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The plant microbiome
The key to healthy plants is healthy microbiomes. Anthony King meets the crop scientists hoping to boost yields by managing microorganisms
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Illuminating manuscript treasures
Rachel Brazil takes a look at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s illuminated manuscripts and learns their scientific stories
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From venoms to medicine
Venoms are a treasure trove of peptides that may provide a bounty of novel painkillers
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Beer: Music to your taste buds
Andy Extance goes on tour in the UK and Belgium and compares the science behind the different processes used by craft and mass brewers
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Every breath you take
Nina Notman meets the chemists looking to clear the air around indoor air pollution
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Staying one step ahead of the game
Clare Sansom examines the need for agile drug development when tackling emerging viral disease outbreaks
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Phase to phase
Chemists are finding fascinating phase-change phenomena, discovers Rachel Brazil
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Marie Curie, the migrant chemist
150 years after Marie Curie’s birth, Mike Sutton delves into her life and research
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CO2 recycling – an uphill struggle
James Mitchell Crow explains how chemists are turning a problematic greenhouse gas into commercially useful molecules, at industrial scale
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Cryo-EM: a cold, hard look at biology
Super cool microscopy wins the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry
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What do Nobel laureates do to relax?
We asked seven chemistry Nobel laureates what they do to relax
