All Columns articles – Page 24
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OpinionGas, flame and baseball
The mixed fates of three sports legends who joined the US Chemical Corps during the first world war
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OpinionLetters: October 2017
Your opinions on redefining the kilogram, timing viscosity and Victorian anaesthetics
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OpinionScientists become bedeviled advocates
Scientists need to stand up for rational thinking at a time when it is under threat around the world
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OpinionDoes the Nobel prize still matter?
Outmoded, capricious and burdened with obligations – so why does everybody want one?
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OpinionShould individual companies be blamed for climate change?
Argument ignores consumers’ responsibility driven by our energy demands
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OpinionStanding up for good science
Recent opposition to fluoridation in Hull shows how bad science impacts public opinion
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OpinionForcing fluorines into shape
Sometimes unnatural molecules can be more challenging to synthesise than natural metabolites
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OpinionAn opportunity ignored
Dismissing ideas that were ‘not invented here’ is like walking past a $100 bill
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OpinionIs radiochemistry in danger of collapse?
Retirement and lack of political will is creating a shortfall in skilled scientists
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OpinionThat’s stereochemistry
Recognising the tetrahedral nature of carbon changed science as well as explaining it
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OpinionWhen Antarctica stopped being only for men
Toxic ideas about heroism blocked women’s access to science
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OpinionFabry and Perot's interferometer
The device that changed how we look at light – and our universe
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OpinionHow did you get here?
We weren’t all born to be a chemist – and we need to start admitting it
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OpinionRecharging the UK's battery industry
The £246 million Faraday Challenge is welcome – but it’s not enough