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The 1920s chemists who thought they’d achieved the alchemists’ dream
The now-forgotten transmutation controversy hung on apparent evidence of mercury transforming into gold
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Marsh’s wires and the birth of the toaster
Raise a toast to the man who invented an essential alloy
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How advances in antiretrovirals have impacted my life with HIV
Eddie Heywood explains how having a range of drugs has helped a whole generation live with HIV – now their biggest concern is remembering to take them
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Catherine Ngila: ‘I am very passionate about empowering my students’
The environmental chemist on adapting to different cultures and empowering others
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The nuances of chemical confirmation
Supporting a hypothesis is more difficult than it might seem
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Letters: May 2024
Readers call for cross-industry support, celebrate variety and debate the evidence for Z-DNA’s handedness
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Lab automation gives me more time at the top of the mountain
Getting back to the bench reminds Derek Lowe how much has changed in 40 years
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Breaking the cycle of teach, test, forget
A focus on exams makes it harder for students to cultivate a deep understanding of their subject
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Inertia, decisions and robots
Our cognitive biases can make it difficult to choose what’s best for science
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When the blood keeps on flowing
While warfarins can be lifesaving, superwarfarins are deadly – and not just to rodents
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Holes in the ‘holey graphyne’ story
The challenges – and importance – of questioning published results
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Heated crystals jump to enantiomeric separation
Chiral asparagine monohydrate crystals can segregate by handedness – if you arrange them carefully first
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Letters: April 2024
Readers discuss the handedness of DNA, celebrate the Explosives Act and reminisce about childhood experiments
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Nichols’ radiometer and discovering that radiation exerts pressure
A sensitive reflection of light pressure
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Allotrope or not?
Loose terminology causes disquiet among guardians of the chemical nomenclature
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Jani Ingram: ‘We have seen wells with uranium levels higher than the drinking water standard’
The environmental chemist on addressing pollution of Navajo waterways from legacy mining, her life off the reservation and a puke green Datsun