All Chemistry World articles in December 2020
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FeatureThe name’s bond, chemical bond
Kathryn Harkup explores the poisons – real and fictional – used in Bond films
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ArticleAstraZeneca puts academia at the heart of pharma
At the heart of chemical biology are the molecules that make medicines effective and safe for consumers. AstraZeneca harnesses the scientists at the heart of academia to create a healthier world
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ReviewThe Quantum Matrix: Henry Bar’s Perilous Struggle for Quantum Coherence
Quantum mechanics in a creative comic form
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ReviewUnfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World
A friendly sort of commiseration that looks at all the ways our primitive bodies grapple with living a modern lifestyle
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OpinionDisabled scientists excluded from the lab
Inaccessibility continues to push disabled researchers out of science
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FeatureHow does a cell know what kind of cell it should be?
Philip Ball investigates how cells use condensed ‘blobs’ to collect the molecules involved in regulating genes
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OpinionBerthelot’s bomb calorimeter
The romantic life of the man who measured the heat of combustion
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ReviewBillion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food
A perceptive account of what might be the the food industry’s next big thing: lab-grown meat
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OpinionMapping mercury contamination from mining
Social cartography as a tool for locating sources of pollution
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OpinionA common goal
A commitment to equality unites the chemical societies that make up the Commonwealth Chemistry community
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OpinionLetters: December 2020
Readers muse on thermal hazard data, and ask for help with an embroidered periodic table
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BusinessBrexit may put some chemicals out of GB’s Reach
Industry fears divergence of UK and EU regulations could spell disaster for trade
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PuzzleDecember 2020 puzzles
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OpinionThomas Hartung: ‘I am not a funny guy’
The world-renowned toxicologist talks about animal models, his dog and diminishing trust in experts
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ReviewSticking Together: The Science of Adhesion
This book will answer everything you ever wanted to know about how things stick to other things – from geckos to PVA adhesive
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BusinessOxford–AstraZeneca vaccine joins others with promising interim data
Cheap and fridge-stable candidate at least 60% and up to 90% effective at preventing disease