All Feature articles – Page 8
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FeatureThe birth of the polymer age
Mike Sutton unravels Hermann Staudinger’s long hunt to understand macromolecules, which began 100 years ago
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FeatureThe weirdness of water
Can we explain the strange properties of water by thinking of it as two different liquids? Rachel Brazil dives into the ongoing debate
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FeatureThe Middle East’s synchrotron is open Sesame
How difficult is it to build a world-class research facility in the Middle East? Kit Chapman investigates
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FeatureUncovering how the spliceosome makes the cut
Clare Sansom looks at the complex world of the spliceosome, a molecular machine in all our cells
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FeatureSustainable lab buildings
After a decade of grassroots growth, the laboratory sustainability movement is bursting into the mainstream finds James Mitchell Crow
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Feature3D printing the future
Kit Chapman takes a tour of a US Department of Energy lab, where 3D printing is performed on a massive scale
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FeatureAdjuvants: vaccines’ hidden helpers
Anthony King examines a crucial part of vaccines that can significantly boost their performance, but which often go unrecognised
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FeatureCatching the polluters
Measurement techniques can pinpoint emitters like unroadworthy trucks and broken gas pipes, finds Andy Extance, but are not yet widespread
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FeatureThe search for cancer vaccines
Claire Jarvis looks at ongoing work to prevent the disease – and convince a sceptical community of their seriousness
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FeatureRecycling clothing the chemical way
Nina Notman explores how chemistry is poised to close the loop in clothing recycling
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FeaturePolly Arnold’s diversity of interests
Kit Chapman asks the champion of actinide chemistry and diversity in science what comes next as she starts her new role at a US national lab
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Can chemists crack our cells’ sugar code?
Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to understand the sweet mystery of the glycome
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FeatureCan smart biomaterials deliver?
James Mitchell Crow explores the next generation of therapeutic biomaterials, which aim to interact dynamically with the body and help to control diabetes and heal wounds
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FeatureBorrowing scientific theories
Can re-purposed science help us understand more than the physical world? Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to play swap
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FeatureSeparating turmeric fact from fiction
Thousands of papers have been published on curcumin’s healing potential, but its usefulness is not yet proven, finds Andy Extance
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FeatureA battery technology worth its salt
With lithium-containing batteries facing constraints on many of the metals they contain, Nina Notman looks at whether its group 1 neighbour sodium can supply the answer
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FeatureSingle-atom catalysis
Single atom and hierarchical nanopore catalysts are reducing the need for precious metals, and could clean up the energy and chemical industries, finds Andy Extance
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FeatureThe lithium pioneers
Katrina Krämer traces the full story of how lithium-ion batteries won the 2019 Nobel prize
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FeatureAtom-by-atom experiments at the edge of the periodic table
Only a few atoms of oganesson have ever been made – and they all vanished in less time than it took you to read this
