All Chemistry World articles in September 2021
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Feature
Four years of chemistry preprints
Nina Notman takes stock of how preprint severs have settled into the chemistry community
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Opinion
Lights, smartphones, action!
How an intrepid group of technicians adventured into the world of filmmaking
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Opinion
Letters: September 2021
Readers share their thoughts on chemical names and rights for workers, and continue an explosive conversation
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Podcast
Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith – Book club
A history of a drug – and the queer community
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Opinion
The lifesaving work of Evelyn Hickmans
Anne Green tells us how a female chemist almost single-handedly established paediatric clinical chemistry and led to a first in global health
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Careers
Remotely of value?
The benefits and drawbacks of working or studying from home are not clear cut
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Careers
Rallying to the chemical safety cause
How Matt Endean works to keep children safe in school chemistry laboratories
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Opinion
Podbielniak’s contactor
How a new spin on separation produced petroleum, penicillin and much more
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Puzzle
September 2021 puzzles
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Feature
Experimenting in a pandemic
Chemistry teachers have faced extraordinary challenges in preparing and running practicals in the past 18 months. Clare Sansom investigates how they have fared
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Opinion
Taeghwan Hyeon: ‘Multidisciplinary collaboration is a must’
The nanoparticle pioneer on the importance of reading, exercise and nurturing excellent young scientists
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Business
The multi-pronged search for Covid-19 treatments
Drugs that block infection or reduce inflammation will complement vaccine protection
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Opinion
The price of failure
Drug market structures and high R&D failure rates can tempt companies into bad pricing behaviour
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Research
Actinium’s radius revised to solve cancer therapy mystery
For decades, scientists have been using the wrong ionic radius for one of Earth’s rarest element
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News
Research and regulations face-up to a new era of non-animal testing alternatives
Hopes raised that approval for skin sensitisation test could mark the start of a raft of in vitro toxicity tests
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Feature
How a virus ancestor powers our memory’s chemistry
Andy Extance tells the astonishing story of the Arc protein and its capsid forms, and the questions it poses