All Comment articles
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Opinion
The chemical industry is falling short on supporting women
Unless barriers are broken down, the future of the industry is unsustainable
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Opinion
Can the work of Professor R Obot be beautiful too?
The rise of AI raises questions about how we judge results
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Opinion
Why we need public analysts
As the Association of Public Analysts winds up, Duncan Campbell reflects on the continued importance of the profession
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Opinion
Proteins’ shape and function are two sides of the same coin
A new perspective on the relationship between chemistry and biology
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Opinion
How hoarding knowledge is hurting the industry in the long run
Sharing results that are not commercially viable would speed up research
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Opinion
Lab digitalisation and industry 4.0
How technology can help us run our labs more efficiently
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Opinion
A post-Flixborough risk assessment
In the last 50 years, attitudes to safety have improved so that first-hand experience of lab incidents is now rare
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Opinion
Engaging with the complex legacy of Humphry Davy
Online courses and student-run projects show there’s great interest in discussing Davy’s links to slavery and scientific racism
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Opinion
Holes in the ‘holey graphyne’ story
The challenges – and importance – of questioning published results
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Opinion
Allotrope or not?
Loose terminology causes disquiet among guardians of the chemical nomenclature
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Opinion
How we set up the Chemical Society of The Gambia
Overcoming red tape and technical hurdles to bring together the country’s chemists
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Opinion
Investigating the molecular basis of a nice cup of tea
How Michelle Francl researched how to make the perfect brew
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Opinion
Towards a unified theory of bonding
Explaining trends across the periodic table with the help of node-induced electron confinement
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Opinion
Shining a spotlight on disabled scientists
As Enable Science launches a poster series to celebrate disabled scientists, founder Chantelle Minchin discusses the importance of representation
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Opinion
Showing chemists have lives outside of science is inspirational
Human qualities, not big discoveries, are what we should seek from role models
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Opinion
Learning lessons from the history of chemistry
What makes chemistry work? And why should we care?
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Opinion
Could cheap CRO rates threaten to destabilise biotech?
Pharmaceutical pipelines are heavily dependent on contract research organisations; we can’t afford for them to fail