All Columns articles – Page 57
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Monopoly money
Dean Baker says it’s time to start talking seriously about the way in which pharma is funded
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Protecting patients at all costs
Suffering stagnant output, and beset by patent expiries and spiralling costs, drug discovery is in poor health. Simon Campbell prescribes a remedy
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The automatic chemist
Philip Ball considers the creation of a collective chemical brain, and what it might dream up
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A warning for Iberoamerican science
Latin America’s scientific spring is in jeopardy says Carmelo Polino, as education systems fail a disinterested generation
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Black crystal arts
The secret tricks needed to coax out crystals hark back to our alchemical past
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Flashback: 1987 – Refuseniks
Scientists who applied to emigrate from the Soviet Union were refused exit visas and demoted
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Standing up for chemistry
The RSC’s president, Lesley Yellowlees, sets out her ambitions for the coming years
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Nullius in verba
Philip Ball asks how much of the published literature you should believe. Not much, by some accounts
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Playing with water
Tom Waller discusses the science and technology that can help make the difference between swimming and winning
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Protecting the spirit of competition
Keeping sport clean requires a constant, concerted effort that carries on long after the race is run, says Michael Stow
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Flashback: 1977 – 100 years of the Royal Institute of Chemistry
The Royal Institute of Chemistry celebrated its centenary with a luncheon and a reception at the science museum