All Working life articles – Page 4
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News
How can your lab cut water use in reflux reactions?
Practical advice builds on a new study comparing air-cooled condensers
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Careers
Slow progress reforming academia creates its own generation gap
Requirements from funders and hiring committees have a cultural influence
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Careers
From baby boomers to gen Z, how do different generations approach chemistry?
Are differences in attitudes and training affecting science?
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News
Indian scheme to provide 300 research grants for women
The announcement made by India’s science and technology minister aims to foster more cross-disciplinary research
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Opinion
Lab digitalisation and industry 4.0
How technology can help us run our labs more efficiently
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News
Gender equality report highlights progress and challenges for women in research
41% of the world’s researchers are female, but women are underrepresented as authors of papers and patents
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Opinion
A post-Flixborough risk assessment
In the last 50 years, attitudes to safety have improved so that first-hand experience of lab incidents is now rare
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News
‘Fire and devastation’: 50 years on from the Flixborough disaster what’s changed?
Lessons from deadliest chemical accident in UK history are still relevant today
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Careers
How Rainbow Lo is accelerating innovation
Impatient for change, she joined Paris-based sustainable ‘deep tech’ agency Hello Tomorrow
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News
Legal threats, online trolls and low pay: the world of scientific sleuth Elisabeth Bik
Chemistry World catches up with one of the world’s leading scientific integrity experts
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Opinion
Inertia, decisions and robots
Our cognitive biases can make it difficult to choose what’s best for science
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Research
Using analytical chemistry to illuminate the unlisted ingredients in tattoo inks
Discovery that more than 80% of the tattoo inks sampled had unlisted ingredients prompts New York-based lab to launch a website providing chemical information to tattoo artists and their clients
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News
US government scientists follow academics in unionising for better conditions
California Association of Professional Scientists joins a national trade union to boost bargaining power
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Careers
A sustainable career in sustainability
How Xampla’s principal scientist Lynette Holland became an industry leader without sacrificing her work-life balance
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News
What’s the most expensive piece of glassware you ever broke? Chemists share their stories
Question on social media strikes a chord as scientists share their smashing tales
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Careers
Losing a job can make you question who you are
Our identity becomes tightly linked with our work
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