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OpinionDo bond classifications help or hinder chemistry?
Ionic, covalent, metallic and more… but there’s debate about whether bonds are real at all
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OpinionPredicting and discovering in chemistry
How scientists look into the past, present and future
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OpinionChemistry’s history through the feminist lens
Examining how science excludes women and other underrepresented groups
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OpinionDoes the periodic table reveal laws of nature?
There could be more to learn from ordering the elements
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OpinionIn search of the chemical bond
Philosophy of science can help us discover new ways of understanding whether bonds really exist
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OpinionHow chemistry provides a unique perspective on causation
Philosophical mysteries around chemical reactions
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OpinionThe different shades of sexist science
How supposedly scientific arguments for the inferiority of women support gender discrimination
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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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OpinionScience as a product of culture
The role of background beliefs and assumptions in the development of science
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OpinionWhat’s revolutionary about the Chemical Revolution?
How an event in chemistry shaped philosophy
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OpinionHow values influence decisions in science
Empirical evidence is not always sufficient to determine the models we use
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OpinionHow philosophy helps solve puzzles in chemistry
Without realising it, chemists use a range of philosophical tools to probe the world
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OpinionAre chemical entities real?
Proving that atoms and molecules exist is surprisingly difficult
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OpinionWhy do we still do chemistry?
It’s still not clear whether quantum chemistry has all the answers