All Chemistry World articles in June 2024
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Careers
From baby boomers to gen Z, how do different generations approach chemistry?
Are differences in attitudes and training affecting science?
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Opinion
Using XRF to uncover the secrets of three Irish chalices
Investigating a medieval manufacturing mystery
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Opinion
Letters: June 2024
Readers find answers in industry, celebrate Eiji Osawa and continue the Z-DNA debate
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Opinion
Will science ever reach an end?
While the rate of discoveries in any field may slow over time, the frontier creeps ever further
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Opinion
Clevenger’s separator and the acceptance of grief
Numerous tragedies beset the life of Joseph Franklin Clevenger (1874–1945)
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Business
Two explosions in India leave at least 11 dead and dozens injured
Blasts occurred at a peroxides plant near Mumbai and an explosives factory in Chhattisgarh
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Opinion
Our hunger for data could be an unhealthy diet
Synthetic data is both an answer and a problem
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Feature
Why are computational chemists making up their data?
‘Synthetic data’ is being used in chemistry, but is it something we should worry about? Hayley Bennett explains
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Research
Simple preparation method improves access to long-known superacid
Aluminium tris(fluorosulfate) synthesised in a single step
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Opinion
Gregory Robinson: ‘We were members of the last generation to attend segregated schools’
The synthetic inorganic chemist on attending a segregated school in Alabama, balancing football and chemistry, and tennis as a muse
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Business
Pan-cancer approval shows huge potential for antibody–drug conjugates
Enhertu gains approval based on gene expression rather than tumour location
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Research
Playing with plastic toy building bricks creates microplastic and nanoplastic pollution
Effects of such microscopic plastic particle on health is unknown but scientists urge caution – and more research
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News
Expressions of concern added to more than 60 articles in chemistry journal
Elsevier scrutinising further articles in the journal as it attempts to discover what happened
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Feature
How DDT went from triumph to tragedy
Few compounds have a story as controversial as this insecticide. Mike Sutton traces the tale from its beginning 150 years ago
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Opinion
Humphry Davy’s whole story – warts and all – deserves to be told
Offensive comments about other races and cultures are part of his legacy too