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OpinionChemistry’s history through the feminist lens
Examining how science excludes women and other underrepresented groups
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Interpreting the impact of AI large language models on chemistry
LLMs may outperform Alphafold, but currently struggle to identify simple chemical structures
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What does AI mean for chemistry?
Phil Ball looks at whether letting machines do our thinking for us will change our understanding of chemistry itself
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Does the periodic table reveal laws of nature?
There could be more to learn from ordering the elements
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In search of the chemical bond
Philosophy of science can help us discover new ways of understanding whether bonds really exist
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Is there a natural order in which complex objects appear?
Assembly theory suggests there might be
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How chemistry provides a unique perspective on causation
Philosophical mysteries around chemical reactions
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Beyond the transition state
Entropy production could be a key guide to predicting how a reaction product forms
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The different shades of sexist science
How supposedly scientific arguments for the inferiority of women support gender discrimination
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A century of curly arrows
Celebrating the simple symbols that – along with their straight counterparts – encapsulate complex chemical behaviours
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Because it isn’t there
Why do chemists do what they do? The underlying philosophy for many of us is the same as it has been for centuries
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Rethinking our relationship to nature
How the scientific revolution made it culturally permissible to exploit the environment
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Science as a product of culture
The role of background beliefs and assumptions in the development of science
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What’s revolutionary about the Chemical Revolution?
How an event in chemistry shaped philosophy
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How values influence decisions in science
Empirical evidence is not always sufficient to determine the models we use
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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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How philosophy helps solve puzzles in chemistry
Without realising it, chemists use a range of philosophical tools to probe the world
