All Chemistry World articles in December 2017
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Review
The secret science of superheroes
Aurora Walshe reviews a book that will make you laugh like an evil genius
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Review
Adapt: how we can learn from nature’s strangest inventions
Laura Fisher reviews a tale of bio-inspired technology
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Review
Not a scientist: how politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science
A book that looks critically at the way science is treated by policymakers, reviewed by Susan Vickers
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Review
Is the universe a hologram? Scientists answer the most provocative questions
From Nobel chemists pondering politics to computer scientists musing on Plato
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Review
Scale: the universal laws of life and death in organisms, cities and companies
Geoffrey West’s book outlines his research on the maths behind complex systems of all kinds
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Review
Soonish: Emerging technologies that will improve and/or ruin everything
A look at what could happen in the near-ish future
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Opinion
Letters: December 2017
Your thoughts on exploding tanks, dicholoromethane and closing down the lab for Christmas
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Feature
Beer: Music to your taste buds
Andy Extance goes on tour in the UK and Belgium and compares the science behind the different processes used by craft and mass brewers
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Business
Merck & Co and Qiagen to build UK research hubs
Almost 2000 jobs to be created at research centres in Manchester and London
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Puzzle
December 2017 puzzles
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Review
And then you’re dead: what really happens if you get swallowed by a whale, are shot from a cannon, or go barreling over Niagara
Katrina Krämer reviews a collection of unusual, impossible and amusing death scenarios
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Opinion
Geri Richmond: 'I was hesitant to use creativity in science'
Geri Richmond on motherhood, office space and funky chickens
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Opinion
Beyond buckets and batches
Embracing flow chemistry means leaving behind some faithful friends