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OpinionDavid Hu: ‘People ask me the strangest questions’
The fluid dynamicist on playing chess, bringing science to the public, and the beauty in everyday life
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Carolina Proaño
An Ecuadorian researcher has converted her lab to run the first Covid-19 tests in the Amazon
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Ancient antidotes
Favourites of emperors and royalty, theriacs were the universal cures of their day
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Online conferences have benefits worth retaining
Nothing’s quite the same as a scientific meeting
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Covid-19 poses trust issues for science
The pandemic is proving the importance of public trust in science
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Krystle McLaughlin
A young chemistry professor in New York is trying to gain back lost research time and will likely request to add a year to her tenure clock
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Molecular dynamics used to simulate 100 million atoms
At the point of simulating bulk matter
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Graham Dawson
The ups and downs of reopening a Chinese university and its research labs after prolonged closure
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PhD researcher mental health matters – now more than ever
And improving it is vital for the future of chemistry
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Jose Mascareñas
As Spain begins lifting its lockdown, a key chemist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia worries about the future
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Nazarov cyclisation
We are all shaped by the opportunities afforded us, by the social structures and politics of our day
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Mélissa Nehme, Lucía Gallego and Joe Woods
Researchers are returning to labs in Switzerland with social distancing measures in place
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Chemists amid coronavirus: James Canary
The chair of NYU’s chemistry department says research is ‘completely interrupted’ in his lab and his senior graduate student is stuck in China
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Hopes and fears for remdesivir
Available resources for testing coronavirus treatments need to be used wisely
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Does the drug work, or not?
Coronavirus trials reveal the murky reality of disentangling compounds’ effects on human biology
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Addressing the plastics problem
Sustainability must be fully incorporated into material design
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Chemists amid coronavirus: James Keeler
The head of Cambridge’s chemistry department says its research has been ‘mothballed’, and he worries about lost productivity
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Rita Colwell: ‘Pseudoscience is almost like a disease’
The former director of the US National Science Foundation on persevering and flourishing as a woman in science
