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Scents and sentimentality
Deprived of familiar lab odours, Derek Lowe indulges in some nasal nostalgia
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Najat Saliba: ‘The Beirut explosion is a crime like no other’
The atmospheric chemist who dared to dream big and returned home to Beirut to become an environmental activist
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We need our simple symbols, but machines might not
Will the curly arrow still be with us in another 100 years?
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Living through Covid-19
Many researchers are now feeling the effects of additional emotional burdens
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The different shades of sexist science
How supposedly scientific arguments for the inferiority of women support gender discrimination
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Fixing chemistry’s branding problem
Engaging with others to improve the central science’s image
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A century of curly arrows
Celebrating the simple symbols that – along with their straight counterparts – encapsulate complex chemical behaviours
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Because it isn’t there
Why do chemists do what they do? The underlying philosophy for many of us is the same as it has been for centuries
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Jim West’s marvellous microphone
Ainissa Ramirez highlights an African American scientist who created one of the most used technologies of our modern age, but whose name is barely known by the general public
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A call for open science student leaders
Crowdsourcing talent for project coordination, data management, communication and dissemination
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Letters: February 2022
Readers investigate June Lindsey’s legacy, question policy and celebrate vaccination
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Zafra Lerman: ‘I used art, music, dance, drama, poetry, animation, anything’
The influential science diplomat on teaching chemistry through the arts and doing almost impossible things
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The shadow of drug resistance
Why do some medicines stop working, and can we avoid it for Covid-19 antivirals?
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A transition metal handyman
Using nickel templating to promote a large molecule for organic electronics
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Unbend the spirit of science
New research reveals racial profiling among scientists of Chinese descent and the consequences for the US scientific community
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What next for the US’s China Initiative after the case against MIT’s Gang Chen falls apart?
The US’s probe into researchers’ ties to China and potential theft of intellectual property stands on a knife edge
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The chemist’s gambit
If artificial intelligence can revolutionise chess, what might it do to chemistry?
