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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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From 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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Energy 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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Synthesising molecules and memories
Scientific adventures start with the support of an inspirational supervisor
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Catalogues of complexity
The tangled web of fine chemicals supply frequently throws up surprises
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Elizabeth Fulhame, the 18th century chemistry pioneer who faded from history
More than 200 years ago, a female chemist introduced the concept of catalysis and made early steps towards photography. Rachel Brazil develops her story
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Letters: June 2022
Readers share poems and memories, and report a textbook theft by the man who stole Einstein’s brain
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Teaching-focused staff contribute to REF results too
But are often overlooked in celebrations of research excellence
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From waste to renewable resources
A procedure for breaking the recalcitrant C–C bonds in lignin
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An idea that clicked
Bioorthogonal reactions – doing chemistry inside living cells without blasting everything in sight – are no mean feat
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Carolyn Bertozzi: ‘Shooting hoops is very meditative’
The celebrated chemical biologist who dreamed of being a rock star before inventing the field of bioorthogonal chemistry
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Is there a natural order in which complex objects appear?
Assembly theory suggests there might be
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Reformed and refreshed
Chemistry comes out of the latest Research Excellence Framework exercise looking good
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Living through the war in Ukraine
Since the full-scale invasion began, Anastasia Klimash has been talking to chemists in Ukraine to find out how they are being affected
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Chemists in Ukraine: Liudmyla Solianyk
The early days of the Russian invasion brought missile strikes and food shortages to Bucha district, but evacuation was just as dangerous
