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FeatureHow organocatalysis won the Nobel prize
Jamie Durrani tells the story of how two young upstarts, Ben List and David MacMillan, created a whole new field of catalysis
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Business
Predicting and preventing production losses with AI
Seebo’s machine learning technology helps chemical manufacturers get deep insight into their processes
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News
Quotas for women or based on ethnicity ruled out for the Nobel prizes
Head of the body that awards the Nobel calls the small number of females Nobel laureates ‘sad’, but says quotas are the wrong approach
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Longest-serving National Institutes of Health chief, Francis Collins, to step down
Head of $41 billion US biomedical research agency will depart at the end of the year
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Research
Explainer: why has asymmetric organocatalysis won the chemistry Nobel prize?
In a rather unexpected move by the Nobel committee, this year’s prize in chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan
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News
Asymmetric organocatalysis scoops 2021 chemistry Nobel prize
Benjamin List and David MacMillan recognised for research that makes chemistry greener
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The 2021 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Benjamin List and David MacMillan win the chemistry prize for a new way to assemble molecules
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News
How prizes contribute to the ‘extraordinary growth’ of a scientific field
Prize-winning topics produce more papers and retain more scientists than non-prizewinning areas
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News
Nobel prize in physics goes to research on complex physical systems
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi improved our understanding of everything from atoms to Earth’s climate
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Opinion
Depositing hope for the future
The rise of ChemRxiv might mean that chemists can tackle thornier cultural problems
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Opinion
In situ with Tebello Nyokong
The influential chemist on nurturing confidence in students and taking inspiration from the humanities
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Opinion
Leading a lab through pandemic-induced uncertainty
Emphathy is vital to support mentees effectively
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Feature
What’s wrong with research culture?
A knotty mess of problems affects people doing academic research in the UK. Rachel Brazil tries to untie the tangle
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Opinion
Mental wellbeing in academia
Not enough has been done to support students during the pandemic
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Opinion
How Covid-19 has changed us
While the pandemic has introduced more efficient and global ways of working, researchers and educators still have challenges to overcome
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News
Chemistry Nobel predictions range from free-radical chemistry to MOFs
Data-crunching goes up against gut feeling as the chemistry community weighs in on their favourites for the world’s top chemistry prize
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Business
Fully synthetic proteins make tailored medicines
Bright Peak Therapeutics makes modified protein drugs from scratch
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