All Columns articles
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News
They break it, we all pay for it
GK Chesterton’s legacy goes beyond his Father Brown detective novels and explains why tearing down institutions harms us all
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Opinion
Getting into the weeds of the glyphosate debate
Assessments of the risk posed by the controversial herbicide depend on how the evidence is weighed
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Business
US reviews chemical incident prevention planning rules
Risk Management Program has been extended and rolled back under successive governments
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Opinion
Weight loss drug supply races
With official shortages ended, but the first generics gearing up for launch, companies are looking for the next generation of drugs
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Opinion
Classifications, racial discrimination and Covid-19
Lessons with philosophical significance for how we group people and objects
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus five years on
Rebecca Trager catches up with four chemists to see how their working lives have changed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus five years on: Krystle McLaughlin
An assistant chemistry professor at a small college in New York gets her career back on track, thanks to a tenure clock extension and teaching release
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus five years on: Anya Gryn’ova
A computational chemist has moved from being group leader at a German research institute to an associate computational chemistry prof in the UK
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus five years on: Liang Zhang
Lockdown gave a young chemistry professor in China the space and time to consider the most worthwhile projects, and that has benefited his team
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Opinion
Putting research on the chopping block risks mortgaging countries’ futures
Many countries in the global north are taking a short-sighted approach to their science budgets
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus five years on: Lee Cronin
A University of Glasgow chemist describes how Covid-19 helped establish the principle of chemputation and spur a chemistry revolution
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Opinion
Forming bonds through Covid-19
How studying chemistry helped ward off loneliness during the pandemic
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Opinion
Fluorine makes you an offer you can’t refuse
What might we do if we had a new, electron-donating equivalent element?
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Opinion
(–)-Scabrolide B (again!)
Proverbially, comparison may not bring joy – but it can be educational
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Opinion
Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
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Opinion
Donna Nelson: ‘Being the science advisor to Breaking Bad was so much fun’
The well-known organic chemist on growing up in a small Oklahoma town, asking demographic questions and advising a hit television series
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Opinion
Why the chemistry community needs to engage with curriculum reviews
A-level grade boundaries are one source of dissatisfaction for chemistry educators
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