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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Omar Farha
An MOF pioneer has just reopened his lab at Northwestern University after more than two months, with new social distancing precautions
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Can computational chemistry benefit from blockchain?
It could be a new paradigm in safeguarding science, but it might just tie our hands
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Dragons of immunology
Anti-inflammatories like dexamethasone are triumphs amid the pitfalls of the immune system
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Dick Zare: ‘I got into big fights with my science teacher’
The Stanford physical chemist recounts his eventful childhood in Cleveland, and how his first chemistry experiment led to a spanking
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Making waves with the surfing citizen scientists
Combining surfing and science to understand more about our microbiome
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Chemists amid coronavirus: John Woodland
A medicinal chemist in South Africa sees his research ‘ground to a halt’ and worries about restrictions being lifted as infections are rising
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Making the right call on dexamethasone
The way we do things in research has to change in life or death situations
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Fiona Scott
A freshly-minted PhD talks about the challenges of life and job-hunting during a pandemic
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Dave Berkowitz
The new director of NSF’s chemistry division has started his job at a very challenging time
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Barbara Low, penicillin and the protein pi helix
Mike Sutton celebrates the remarkable career of a female crystallographer, once mistaken for the tea-lady
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Viewing science as a meritocracy allows prejudice to persist
Tomáš Hudlický’s opinions are abhorrent but disturbingly familiar
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Lourival Possani
A biochemist in Mexico may retire if government funding for research dries up
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Liane Rossi
The head of a nanomaterials and catalysis lab at the University of São Paulo says the political situation in Brazil is ‘as bad as the virus’
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The citizen scientists sharing their own data during the Covid-19 pandemic
Groups are using data from wearables and apps to chart the spread of infection
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Lee Cronin
A University of Glasgow chemist finds that it’s no easy task to maintain a research group of about 70 during a pandemic that’s closed your lab
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Collaboration is key to AI-aided drug discovery
The AI Cures project shows how artificial intelligence can assist the search for a cure for Covid-19
