All The crucible articles – Page 3
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Opinion
Science is political
The personal values held by scientists should influence the accolades they receive
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Furin fundamentals
There’s no direct evidence for the lab leak hypothesis – and the biochemistry of the virus might not tell us much about it
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Learning the language of chemistry
Artificial intelligence works out the grammar of chemical reactions
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Rewards based on priority drive unnecessary competition
The story of Crispr illustrates how a focus on patents and publications can cause good people to act in unsavoury ways
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When does a hydrogen bond become a covalent bond?
Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy probes the character of the short, strong bonds in HF2–
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Opinion
Behind the screens of AlphaFold
Predicting protein structure doesn’t necessarily say much about function
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Pseudoscience moving into the mainstream
Pseudoscience now has more serious consequences than a few bent spoons
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The ethical debate around Crispr
The gene editing technique deserves its Nobel Prize, but we should continue to interrogate how it is used
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The true value of scientific holy grails
It comes from the journey, not the goal writes Philip Ball
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Making light of bioluminescence
Glowing may be a side-effect of a very different original purpose
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Viewing science as a meritocracy allows prejudice to persist
Tomáš Hudlický’s opinions are abhorrent but disturbingly familiar
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Molecular dynamics used to simulate 100 million atoms
At the point of simulating bulk matter
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Arbitrary questions don’t count as education
Students should be encouraged to do more than regurgitate what they are told
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The chemical absurdity of molecular recognition
Many biological models rely on an agency that molecules lack
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Frances Arnold’s retraction and the case for slow science
Frances Arnold’s masterful retraction highlights the problems with publication-driven science