All Working life articles – Page 26
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FeatureRising from the ashes
Neil Sinclair reports on some exciting new ventures emerging from redundant chemical and pharmaceutical plants
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NewsWhat does it take to improve laboratory safety?
With criminal charges brought over the death of a UCLA student, US labs are looking at ways to improve safety
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Opinion
Pacific garbage patch reveals plastic pollution's devastating ocean impact
Dylan Stiles sets sail for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Opinion
The 299 ways to convert alcohol to aldehyde
Dylan Stiles touches on the many ways to convert an alcohol to an aldehyde or ketone
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Opinion
Computational chemistry software leaves experimental chemist feeling overwhelmed
Dylan Stiles is bedazzled by computational chemistry
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Opinion
Why chemistry takes years to master unlike computer science
Dylan Stiles takes a trip down memory lane
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Opinion
The art and science of crystallisation in organic chemistry
Dylan Stiles has powerful recrystallisation voodoo
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Opinion
Reference management software transforms PhD thesis writing workflow
Dylan Stiles is writing up
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Opinion
Why brilliant chemistry ideas often disappear without trace
Dylan Stiles casts a sceptical eye over some new-fangled ideas
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Careers
Bacteria and bioenergy
Multitasking professor Bruce Logan says environmental engineering may help save the planet. Susan Aldridge meets him
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Opinion
Ethanol reigns supreme in laboratory and cocktail glass alike
Dylan Stiles is full of spirit
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Opinion
The student perspective on expensive science journal subscriptions
Dylan Stiles makes a tough choice - chemistry or car insurance?
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Opinion
Fashion drives natural product synthesis target selection
Total synthesis is not immune to the vagaries of fickle fashion, says Dylan Stiles
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Careers
'I had always wondered what the private sector was like'
Steve Koonin's curiosity and drive to 'make a difference' led him from academia to one of the world's largest energy companies. Fiona Case meets him
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Opinion
The impossible dream of perpetual motion machines
Dylan Stiles hungers for the ultimate free lunch
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Careers
Formulating a rewarding career
From unlikely beginnings as a botanist, Mark Bell became hooked on formulation chemistry. Sarah Houlton finds out how this shaped a successful business
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Opinion
Superacids: the strongest chemicals that can protonate anything
What could possibly contain the strongest acid in the world, asks Dylan Stiles