All articles by Patrick Walter
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News
What’s the most expensive piece of glassware you ever broke? Chemists share their stories
Question on social media strikes a chord as scientists share their smashing tales
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News
Five of our favourite Christmas chemistrees from 2023
Students and scientists have been getting festive again at schools and labs around the world
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Opinion
One year on from ChatGPT’s launch does it offer hope or hype for science?
Chatbots could help chemists but their limitations need to be understood
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Opinion
The PFAS problem in everyone’s back yard
Communities around the world will have to get to grips with a new pollution problem that will cost billions to address
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News
The 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov win chemistry Nobel for quantum dots
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Opinion
The UK has rejoined Horizon Europe, but the delays have been costly
The deal to rejoin the EU’s science programme makes sense for the country and it’s well overdue
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Opinion
The end of chemical warfare
With a final push we might see these terrible weapons disappear from the world in our lifetime
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News
Chemical weapons watchdog opens new lab as end nears for deadly munitions
New facility will allow OPCW to address changing nature of threat from chemical weapons
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Opinion
Nursing success – what next for UK science?
Policy prescriptions for research need cross-party support
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Opinion
A decade on Crispr is already poised to deliver on its promise
Gene editing could transform healthcare but no disease should be forgotten
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Opinion
We’re all in this together
As rivalry between countries increases scientific collaboration must be maintained to tackle our shared problems
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Opinion
Trouble at the top of the UK government spells trouble for science too
Science craves certainty but the UK hasn’t been able to deliver it recently
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News
The 2022 chemistry Nobel prize goes to bioorthogonal and click chemistry
Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless take chemistry’s top prize
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Feature
Visualising the Nobel nomination archive
Who nominated whom for the biggest prize in chemistry
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Opinion
Farsighted science
The Webb telescope looks set to deliver on its promise to change the way we see the universe
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Opinion
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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Opinion
Reformed and refreshed
Chemistry comes out of the latest Research Excellence Framework exercise looking good