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    Collaborative chemistry degrees

    2016-06-13T00:00:00Z

    How Chinese and UK universities are working together to deliver degree programmes to Chinese students

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    Scaling new peaks

    2016-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman admires the plethora of different uses for the separation techniques known collectively as chromatography

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    The origin of life

    2016-05-04T00:00:00Z

    How did molecules turn into living organisms? Paul MacLellan investigates

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    Learning gains

    2016-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Ross Galloway and Simon Lancaster discuss the challenge of quantifying students’ learning

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    Exploring UK fracking emissions concerns

    2016-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Elinor Hughes drills down into how scientists are checking potential greenhouse gas and radioactive emissions from the hydraulic fracturing of shale

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    The language of chemistry

    2016-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Tom Husband gives an insider’s view of teaching chemistry to students for whom English is not their first language

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    Learning to write in chemistry

    2016-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Michael Seery highlights the importance of carefully-designed writing activities in enabling students to build their scientific writing skills

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    A centre of excellence

    2016-03-14T00:00:00Z

    What can be learned from the Bristol ChemLabS centre for excellence in teaching and learning 10 years on? Timothy Harrison, Nicholas Norman and Dudley Shallcross explain

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    The bonds that bind

    2016-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Mike Sutton plots the journey of the scientists who solved the riddle of chemical bonding

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    What does the word chemical mean to you?

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Katherine Haxton discusses a recent survey about the public’s perception of chemistry

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    Is relativity creating cracks in the periodic table?

    2015-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Mike Follows shows how relativity has affected gold and mercury, and asks if it will affect elements yet to be discovered

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    Challenging concepts in chemistry

    2015-12-21T00:00:00Z

    Andy Chandler-Grevatt introduces threshold concept mastery tasks for A-level

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    The lignin challenge

    2015-12-21T00:00:00Z

    Elinor Hughes investigates how scientists are hoping to use biomass waste to produce valuable chemicals

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    Africa’s gift to the world

    2015-12-21T00:00:00Z

    Raymond Cooper and Jeffrey Deakin explain how a tiny plant from Madagascar, known as the rosy periwinkle, is helping in the fight against cancer

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    Primary discoveries

    2015-11-06T00:00:00Z

    David Overton and Tina Overton investigate a collaboration between chemistry students and teaching students to deliver lessons in primary schools

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    Chemistry in the museum

    2015-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Ruth Jarman opens the eyes of trainee teachers to opportunities to help students learn chemistry in informal settings

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    Putting chemistry in context

    2015-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Michael Seery turns the traditional teaching ladder on its side, and suggests that context-based learning may better suit students’ needs

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    All set for chemistry

    2015-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Chemistry sets through the years have both weathered and reflected many changes in science and society

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    Layer by layer

    2015-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Turley investigates a build-it-yourself 3D printer you can use in your classroom

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    Exploding some myths

    2015-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Declan Fleming investigates what’s really going on when alkali metals hit water