All Columns articles – Page 29
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Opinion
Is your ego helping or hindering your career?
You’re so vain, you probably think this comment’s about you
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Careers
A new life in Frankfurt, Germany
Germany’s pharma and biotech hub is an attractive option – but one with high taxes and stiff competition
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Opinion
Collaboration and competition can both stimulate innovation
Diverse approaches suit different goals
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Opinion
Should scientists be taught how to work in a team?
Soft skills like teamwork and communication could boost undergraduates’ career prospects
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Opinion
Letters: March 2017
Your answers to an iron dilemma, electric car output and whether we need to teach chemists maths
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Opinion
How Roosevelt's Tree Army were poisoned
In the first of a new column, Raychelle Burks investigates a mass arsenic poisoning during the Great Depression
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Opinion
In search of solvation
Process chemistry opens up a whole new world when it comes to solvent choice
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Opinion
Why pain is part of making food delicious
The reason we love eating irritants like chillis and ginger
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Opinion
Letters: February 2017
The many interesting ways you have almost ended up in hospital thanks to home-brew experiments
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Careers
Finding a job in Seoul
South Korea’s vibrant metropolis is a hub for science, sights and spices
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Opinion
Drug regulation is a burden worth bearing
Calls to break down regulatory barriers show a misunderstanding of the industry
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Opinion
Why student debt may leave science dead on arrival
The cost of loans may drive chemists to leave countries such as the UK
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Opinion
What counts as a step during chemical synthesis?
Disagreements over the definition of a chemical step underlie much broader questions
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Opinion
Science communication in the post-truth era
Do popular science articles make the public overconfident about their own expertise?
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Opinion
Humphry Davy and cutting our carbon footprint
A 200 year old electrolysis experiment could hold the key to sustainable fertiliser production
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Opinion
Functionalising pyridines with phosphonium salts
Newly-independent research groups often bring new perspectives to synthesis
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Opinion
Why speaking English could revitalise Japanese science
Language could solve the stagnation seen in undergraduate courses