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FeatureThe impossible water sensor
Hundreds of different chemicals can ruin our water, so measuring their levels is vital. Josh Howgego investigates whether building sensors that can do the job cheaply and remotely will ever be possible
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FeatureThe Lion, the Wich and the Waller
Almost 30 years after its closure, the historic Lion Salt Works in Cheshire opens its doors to the public. Volunteer Mike Tingle relates some of its history
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FeatureChemistry: alternative routes to success
David Read and Rachel Koramoah raise awareness of different ways to achieve a degree in chemistry
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FeatureIdentifying extraterrestrial materials
Meteorites can be bought cheaply online and offer an excellent laboratory teaching tool, explain Luis Lahuerta Zamora, Salvador Lahuerta Zamora and Ana Mellado Romero
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FeatureMassive Open Online Chemistry
Michael Anderson, Jonathan Agger, Stephen Ashworth, Simon Lancaster and Patrick O’Malley explore the trends in teaching chemistry online
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FeatureGood chemistry
There are all sorts of ways chemists can use their skills to aid global development, writes Josh Howgego
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FeatureIs a conceptual understanding of maths vital for chemistry?
Michael Grove and Samantha Pugh explore the ‘mathematics problem’ faced by chemistry students
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FeaturePictures of the molecular world
Matthew Lickiss looks back at how our drawings of chemical structures have changed over time
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FeatureThe other carbon dioxide problem
Carbon dioxide produced by human activity is acidifying the ocean at an unprecedented and alarming rate
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FeatureClimate research heats up
Nina Notman meets some of the atmospheric chemists fitting the pieces of the climate change jigsaw together
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FeatureGolden opportunities
Elinor Hughes finds out how chemists are challenging a misconception about gold
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FeatureThe art detectives
Emma Stoye finds out how spectroscopic techniques allow scientists to look over the shoulders of old masters
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FeatureGetting down to business
Including commercial awareness in undergraduate chemistry courses calls for an interactive teaching approach, says Samantha Pugh
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FeatureThe challenge of turning industrial chemistry green
Green chemistry is a maturing discipline. But the subject still holds big challenges that the next generation of chemists must tackle, as Josh Howgego reports
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FeatureUnwitting artists
Is there art in chemical structures and diagrams? Jennifer Newton looks at the aesthetics all around us
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FeatureSupporting diversity and encouraging inclusion
Positive role models are key to attracting a more diverse section of society to the chemical sciences.
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FeatureBringing molecules into the third dimension
Peter Hoare and Susan Henderson discuss the use of crystal structures to help both school students and early years undergraduates visualise molecules in 3D
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FeatureChemists on the front line
The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has a near century-long history of working with chemical weapons. Philip Robinson reports from Porton Down