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OpinionRethinking our relationship to nature
How the scientific revolution made it culturally permissible to exploit the environment
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Opinion
Science as a product of culture
The role of background beliefs and assumptions in the development of science
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Opinion
What’s revolutionary about the Chemical Revolution?
How an event in chemistry shaped philosophy
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Opinion
How values influence decisions in science
Empirical evidence is not always sufficient to determine the models we use
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Feature
Why do people believe conspiracy theories?
Rachel Brazil looks into the dangerous world of chemical conspiracy theories and asks the experts what we can do about it
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Opinion
How philosophy helps solve puzzles in chemistry
Without realising it, chemists use a range of philosophical tools to probe the world
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Opinion
Are chemical entities real?
Proving that atoms and molecules exist is surprisingly difficult
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Opinion
Why do we still do chemistry?
It’s still not clear whether quantum chemistry has all the answers
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News
Chemistry’s reproducibility crisis that you’ve probably never heard of
Legacy issues are posing important questions for scientific software developers
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News
Has the chemistry Nobel prize really become the biology prize?
Researchers digging into the data call for honesty and transparency on how the prize has changed over the years
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Feature
Borrowing scientific theories
Can re-purposed science help us understand more than the physical world? Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to play swap
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Podcast
Book Club – The Chemical Detective
Fiona Erskine combines chemistry and conspiracy in a fast-paced thriller that takes in Chernobyl and Slovenia
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Opinion
In science we trust
The questions is how can scientists maintain that faith and keep the fire burning?
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Podcast
Book Club – Superior: The Return of Race Science
How different from each other are we all really? Angela Saini looks at the issues, claims and evidence behind race science
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Podcast
Book Club – The Periodic Table
100 years on, we examine the effect of Primo Levi’s masterpiece The Periodic Table
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Feature
Primo Levi and the other periodic table
Author and chemist Primo Levi was born 100 years ago this July. Philip Ball looks at his chemical and literary legacy – including his books The Periodic Table and If This Is a Man
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Review
The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
Drew Gwilliams reviews a book about how science should work, and what happens when it all goes wrong
