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OpinionThe end of a long race?
The finishing line of the Covid-19 pandemic may be in sight, but we mustn’t stop running just yet
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Contribute to defeating malaria
The Medicines for Malaria Venture needs new compounds for screening and more chemists to join its open-souce drug discovery project
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Do science courses need hands-on labs to be effective?
The practical lab is where abstract theory connects to physical reality
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Knocking down paywalls
President Biden’s surprise announcement ending paywalls for federally-funded research by 2026 has left publishers scrambling to respond
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A citizen science app for teaching botany
App-based tools support botanical literacy and citizen science
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Confusing cannabinoids
Decomposition during GC–MS analysis can thwart efforts to determine if a product is legal
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Letters: September 2022
Readers celebrate apprenticeships, near-miss reporting and plants in urban areas
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Angela Russell: ‘We have to not be afraid of failing’
The medicinal chemist on thinking like a scientist and knowing where you want to go
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Integrating coding into chemistry helps science progress faster
Taking a beginner Python programming course can lead to big efficiency gains
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Taking the foundation course route
Students should be told more about the different paths to a career in chemistry
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Why AlphaFold won’t revolutionise drug discovery
Protein structure prediction is a hard problem, but even harder ones remain
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Reflections on rainwater
Water in the world’s pristine wildernesses is already unsafe to drink by new PFAS pollution standards
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Bottling summer lightning
Our features editor reflects on how nature’s sound and light show affects the atmosphere, and the long track to harness fusion
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May cause side effects
The dose makes the poison, but understanding unwanted drug interactions is complicated
