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OpinionLetters: December 2020
Readers muse on thermal hazard data, and ask for help with an embroidered periodic table
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PuzzleDecember 2020 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the December 2020 print issue of Chemistry World
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ReviewSticking Together: The Science of Adhesion
This book will answer everything you ever wanted to know about how things stick to other things – from geckos to PVA adhesive
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FeatureThe science of the perfect cake
Nina Notman opens her lab notebook to find a recipe fit for a queen
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BusinessTaking plastic out of performance paper coatings
SGMA’s silicate sol-gel is a sustainable alternative for packaging such as coffee cups
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CareersThe benefits to mentors of mentoring
Mentoring a junior scientist offers plenty of benefits for you as well
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ReviewToxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia
A comprehensive and timely book covering events from 1931 to 2018
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OpinionMartin Gouterman: the gay man behind the four-orbital model
Abhik Ghosh tells the story of a porphyrin chemist who was a leading figure in Seattle’s gay rights movement of the 1960s
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus: Justin Houseknecht
An organic chemist in the US has used the pandemic to try to spark change in how chemistry is taught at universities
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NewsTen chemistry innovations that Iupac says could change the world
How chemistry can tackle plastic recycling, climate change and Covid-19 among other challenges
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ResearchAncient Maya communities were first to use zeolite to purify water
2000 years ago, people in Tikal were using the world’s most advanced water purification systems
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ReviewBiography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
A book illustrating a global health threat more daunting than Covid-19: growing antibiotic resistance
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FeatureChemistry for all?
Rachel Brazil reports on the RSC’s five-year project to see whether students from disadvantaged backgrounds can be encouraged to study chemistry
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CareersIn praise of appraisals
Taking the opportunity to learn more about yourself – and your employer
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BusinessInnovation is a fragile transition state
Brexit and Covid-19 will likely stifle interactions, but could also stimulate new ones
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OpinionFollow the theory to halt Covid-19
Politicians need to show more trust in the scientific method
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OpinionAre chemical entities real?
Proving that atoms and molecules exist is surprisingly difficult
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ReviewGiving the Devil his Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
‘The counter to bad ideas is good ideas. The rebuttal to pseudoscience is better science.’