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OpinionForgotten women in chemistry
There’s much more to do to fully understand and celebrate the historical contributions of female chemists
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OpinionBetty Wright Harris’s explosive career
Hayley Bennett tells the story of a Black chemist who studied energetic materials – and ways to detect them
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OpinionLessons in meaning from surface science
Do the measurements we take in vacuum mean anything in real-life situations?
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OpinionFarsighted science
The Webb telescope looks set to deliver on its promise to change the way we see the universe
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OpinionThe power of oxygen
Running oxidations on lab scale and plant scale – with the help of bleach
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OpinionCan scientists communicate better with comedy?
It’s no joke: scientists and comedians are collaborating to share research
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OpinionLetters: July 2022
Readers call for international cooperation, near-miss reporting and less emphasis on deriving equations
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OpinionCallendar’s platinum thermometer
Solving the hot topic of accurate and reproducible temperature measurement
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OpinionIn search of the chemical bond
Philosophy of science can help us discover new ways of understanding whether bonds really exist
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OpinionAlzheimer’s, amyloid and abandoned antibodies
Biogen’s aducanumab is stumbling into obscurity. Where does that leave the amyloid hypothesis?
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OpinionMasataka Ogawa and the search for nipponium
Could a Japanese scientist, whose claim to have discovered an element was dismissed, been right all along? Kit Chapman investigates
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OpinionJacqueline Barton: ‘I want to focus on the good stuff’
The Caltech chemist talks about her life as a New Yorker and female scientific powerhouse
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OpinionFrom prebiotic soup to fine-grained RNA world
Theories about how life emerged need to be closely attuned to conditions on the early Earth
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OpinionEnergy is the Achilles’ heel of carbon capture technologies
Efforts to trap carbon dioxide could consume a huge amount of forecast renewable energy growth
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OpinionSynthesising molecules and memories
Scientific adventures start with the support of an inspirational supervisor
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OpinionCatalogues of complexity
The tangled web of fine chemicals supply frequently throws up surprises
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