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OpinionJames Lovelock, a gentleman scientist
Philip Ball reflects on the legacy of the creator of the Gaia hypothesis, who has died aged 103
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Period of discovery
Chemical space contained sufficient information to formulate the periodic system 25 years before Mendeleev
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On the brink of a damaging departure from EU research
Uncertainty in British politics is a headache for UK researchers
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Forgotten women in chemistry
There’s much more to do to fully understand and celebrate the historical contributions of female chemists
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Betty 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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Lessons in meaning from surface science
Do the measurements we take in vacuum mean anything in real-life situations?
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Farsighted science
The Webb telescope looks set to deliver on its promise to change the way we see the universe
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The power of oxygen
Running oxidations on lab scale and plant scale – with the help of bleach
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Can scientists communicate better with comedy?
It’s no joke: scientists and comedians are collaborating to share research
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Letters: July 2022
Readers call for international cooperation, near-miss reporting and less emphasis on deriving equations
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Callendar’s platinum thermometer
Solving the hot topic of accurate and reproducible temperature measurement
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In search of the chemical bond
Philosophy of science can help us discover new ways of understanding whether bonds really exist
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Alzheimer’s, amyloid and abandoned antibodies
Biogen’s aducanumab is stumbling into obscurity. Where does that leave the amyloid hypothesis?
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Masataka 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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Jacqueline 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
