All Columns articles – Page 42
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OpinionAn unfortunate oversight
The US Toxic Substances Control Act is in dire need of reform. That demands compromises, says Mark Peplow
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OpinionLimaspermidine and deethylibophyllidine
Desymmetrisation offers a neat way to add tricky features, says BRSM
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OpinionA negative outlook
Could the Shroud of Turin’s mysterious negative imprints have a chemical cause?
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OpinionFlashback: 1985 – studying as a prisoner-of-war
How prisoners during the Second World War were able to study for chemistry degrees
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OpinionOh, the humanities!
Science and the arts are equally essential to society, says Philip Ball. Don’t divide them by their differences
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OpinionFlashback: 1970 – the Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre
The Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre in Savile Row, London, was used for RSC lectures for many years
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Chemistry uncovered
We can find chemistry everywhere, but sometimes it doesn’t want to be found
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OpinionThinking ahead
PhD courses must prepare students for a life after research, says Mark Peplow
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OpinionBe careful what you wish for
Measuring R&D productivity is a thorny issue. Dennis Lendrem urges the pharmaceutical industry to learn from its mistakes.
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OpinionBack to basics for silylation
Karl Collins applauds the simplicity of adding silicon to heterocycles with KOtBu
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OpinionAnalogues by catalogue
Buying in screening compounds directly feels like cutting out the synthetic chemist middleman, says Derek Lowe
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OpinionDial chem for murder
Poisons may seem to be a murderer’s perfect accomplice, but chemists can always persuade them to betray their secrets, says Philip Ball
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Are you sitting comfortably?
Science has great tales to tell, but we mustn’t let a good story get in the way of the facts
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OpinionFlashback: 1985 – a new society emerges
The Metals Society and the Institution of Metallurgists merged to form a new learned society