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Straight talk
Jo Moules cuts through the confusion and gets to the heart of formative assessment
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Robotic chemistry sets for the classroom
Can chemistry education in schools benefit from the explosion of low-cost robotic devices, ask Laurie Points, Jonathan Grizou and Leroy Cronin
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Making chemical language easy
Ann Marie Farrell and Michael Seery consider how to meet students’ language and literacy needs within chemistry
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To boldly go where no analytical instrument has gone before
Nina Notman meets the chemist behind the mass spectrometer onboard the Philae lander
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The stories behind the words
Simon Rees reveals the origins of some chemical terms and what they can mean for students
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Chemistry and music
Peter Banks explains how musical ability can help students get a better grasp of chemistry
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Designing skilful chemists
David Smith discusses the importance of employability skills for chemists
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Collaborative chemistry degrees
How Chinese and UK universities are working together to deliver degree programmes to Chinese students
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Scaling new peaks
Nina Notman admires the plethora of different uses for the separation techniques known collectively as chromatography
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Exploring UK fracking emissions concerns
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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Learning gains
Ross Galloway and Simon Lancaster discuss the challenge of quantifying students’ learning
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The language of chemistry
Tom Husband gives an insider’s view of teaching chemistry to students for whom English is not their first language
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The origin of life
How did molecules turn into living organisms? Paul MacLellan investigates
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A centre of excellence
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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Learning to write in chemistry
Michael Seery highlights the importance of carefully-designed writing activities in enabling students to build their scientific writing skills
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The bonds that bind
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?
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?
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
Andy Chandler-Grevatt introduces threshold concept mastery tasks for A-level
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Africa’s gift to the world
Raymond Cooper and Jeffrey Deakin explain how a tiny plant from Madagascar, known as the rosy periwinkle, is helping in the fight against cancer