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Do other chemistry prizes predict the Nobels?

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Ferrocene discoverers

Fifty years since the ferrocene furore

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Only two of the discoverers of the sandwich compounds that revolutionised organometallic chemistry received the Nobel prize, leaving one very big name feeling left out. Mike Sutton traces the controversy

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Fighting algal blooms with chemistry

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These harmful events are the result of a complex interplay of factors, but Bárbara Pinho talks to the researchers finding out how they form and how we can stop them

Natural hydrogen

The hunt for natural hydrogen reserves

By Anna Demming

For a long time, nobody thought there could be large quantities of the gas underground. Anna Demming talks to the people proving otherwise

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