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OpinionSuper-powered science
Screaming fans excited about your research, the Sharpie on your lanyard for signing autographs – wouldn’t that be nice?
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CareersHow to have fewer, more effective meetings
Five strategies that can help individuals and institutions manage meetings better
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OpinionCelebrating 100 years of the Pauli exclusion principle
How a quantum view of electron states enabled us to understand the stability of matter
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OpinionSharing the burden of contraception could also mean sharing the risk
What if risk assessments for contraception considered the sum of risk to both members of a couple?
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OpinionCharlotte Williams: ‘Being an academic is a wonderful job’
The award-winning inorganic chemist on early environmental influences and a career spanning industry and academia
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OpinionThe right level of trust in the scientific literature
An overreliance on what’s gone before can hinder innovation
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OpinionWhat makes a good lab manager?
The planning and people skills needed to keep everything running smoothly
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OpinionTake part in the #ChemistryConversations challenge
Will you share your enthusiasm for chemistry with more non-chemists?
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OpinionWood’s metal and the evolution of fusible alloys
Invented by American dentist Barnabas Wood (1819–1875), whose life is shrouded in mystery
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CareersFinancial challenges affect the health of UK chemistry
Maintaining a healthy chemistry pipeline requires affordable education and training routes
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CareersFor chemistry to thrive, it needs to become less cliquey
We need to help more people break through the barriers of tight networks
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OpinionWhat are the limits of life?
In search of design principles that would apply to living systems evolved anywhere in the universe
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OpinionLangley’s bolometer and the importance of ‘stamp collecting’
Mapping a spectrum of developments
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OpinionTrump’s re-election could empower peddlers of some of the worst anti-science ideas
Vaccine opponent Robert F Kennedy is reportedly poised to oversee health in Trump administration
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OpinionPaul Anastas: ‘I’m proudest of being part of a global green chemistry community’
The father of green chemistry on his love of the environment, striving for unattainable perfection and breathing life into an old town library