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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
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Plastics and pandemics
The Covid-19 pandemic is our top priority but the plastic problem isn’t going away
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Solomon Derese
With a curfew in place across Kenya, one senior lecturer is spending his nights recording online classes
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Reducing plastic waste in the lab
It’s time to confront the amount of plastic that’s thrown away by scientists each year
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Sarah Reisman
Work hasn’t slowed for the head of a Caltech synthetic organic chemistry lab, but now she’s doing it from home with her two young children
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Time for a clear stance on raw NMR data storage
Impressive technological tools are pointless without data transparency
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Boon Mian Teo
The pandemic is hitting university budgets and costing researchers their jobs
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Zahra Jamshidi
Lockdown measures are easing in Iran, but there’s still no indication of when universities will reopen
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Liang Zhang
Everything changed for a young chemist in Shanghai when Covid-19 hit while he was away visiting family to celebrate the Chinese New Year
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How Flint tapped in to community action
How citizen science and activism can campaign for clean and safe drinking water
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Inside Flint’s water crisis
Evidence of lead contamination was dismissed as resulting from a laboratory refurbishment
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Taking benzyl fluorides beyond game changing reports
Decarboxylative cross-coupling to produce benzyl fluorides
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Akash Deep Biswas
A young computational chemist from India, working to finish his PhD in Italy, is getting media attention for his social action during the pandemic
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Chemists amid coronavirus: Bartosz Grzybowski
Polish chemist has been able to keep his research at labs in South Korea and Poland remarkably stable during this volatile period
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