All Chemistry World articles in July 2024
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Opinion
Harmoinen’s inverter drives and a crucial step towards reducing energy consumption
For the 200th Classic Kit, Andrea Sella celebrates a crucial efficiency improvement for motors
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Careers
Slow progress reforming academia creates its own generation gap
Requirements from funders and hiring committees have a cultural influence
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Opinion
Letters: July 2024
Readers discuss DDT, reveal new information about Humphry Davy and ponder how to deal with errors
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Opinion
There’s more to alchemy than its mystical nature
It was crucial to the development of chemistry
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Opinion
Lab digitalisation and industry 4.0
How technology can help us run our labs more efficiently
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Opinion
Emmeline Edwards: ‘I connect the dots’
The Haitian-American neurochemist on her journey from Haiti to the US as a teenager, and her journey from chemistry to brain science
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Opinion
Understanding our brains is complicated, beware of simple ideas
Stepping up from chemistry to complexity
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Feature
Bypassing the blood–brain barrier
Researchers are on a quest to outsmart and overcome the sophisticated security system of the brain. Julia Robinson reports on some of the approaches being studied
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Feature
Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet?
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are at the centre of a collision between social and biochemical outlooks on depression, finds Andy Extance
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Feature
The proteins that drive drug addiction
Jamie Durrani speaks to researchers exploring how epigenetic changes in the brain affect drug-seeking behaviours
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News
What are the three main political parties promising on science at the UK election?
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats have all recently outlined plans for research in their manifestos
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Opinion
The US abortion drugs regulation challenge has stalled, but it will return
Having failed in the US Supreme Court, anti-abortion activists are trying other ways to prevent access to mifepristone
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Feature
Sparking industry’s interest in electrosynthesis
Using electrons instead of reagents offers many potential benefits, but there are still barriers to overcome, as Rachel Brazil reports
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Opinion
A common misunderstanding about wave-particle duality
Instead of treating quantum particles as shape-shifters, we should think in terms of probability distributions