All Chemistry World articles in March 2023
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Opinion
Linnemann’s baskets and distillation in the early days of understanding equilibrium
A distillation method that came out in the wash
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Careers
Academics around the world protest fee hikes and budget cuts
Financial difficulties affect researchers at all career stages
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Careers
Financial challenges faced by PhD researchers around the world
Many are protesting stipends that see them work for below minimum wage
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Opinion
N-heterocyclic carbenes are more than passive spectators
The practical importance of N-heterocyclic carbenes continues to grow
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Opinion
A year of war in Ukraine
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is now one year old. For Ukraine, the anniversary has been a moment to reaffirm support among its allies and keep the world’s attention on Kyiv as the conflict moves increasingly by increments with no end in sight. For the Kremlin, the moment has been used to justify continuing the war, as a special operation that was supposed to last weeks now runs into its second year. For those who have lived through the war, it’s a reminder of just how much has changed and how much has been lost.
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Opinion
Ukraine’s chemists persevere through a year of war
One year into the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukrainian chemists face blackouts and missile strikes
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Opinion
Chemists in Ukraine revisited: Liudmyla Solianyk
Regular blackouts and missile strikes are part of life in Bucha district
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Opinion
Chemists in Ukraine revisited: Olha Konshyna
Reagents freeze and power cuts dictate working hours in Kyiv
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Opinion
Chemists in Ukraine revisited: Grygoriy Dmytriv
Planning for the European Crystallographic Meeting in Lviv in 2025 is in full swing
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Opinion
Chemists in Ukraine revisited: Ilias Shcherbakov
A warm winter is making working through power cuts more manageable
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Opinion
Chemists in Ukraine revisited: Volodymyr Buryanov
Reunited with family and helping to develop Ukraine’s chemical industry
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Opinion
Analysing the Winchcombe meteor fireball
The story behind the first spectrum of a meteor which became a recovered meteorite in the UK
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Feature
Changing the game in protein structure prediction
Have AlphaFold and other machine learning techniques essentially solved the formerly fiendish problem, or is there still more to be done? Clare Sansom reports
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Opinion
Dan Shechtman: ‘Cyrus Smith was my idol’
The Israeli Nobel prizewinner shares how his career was inspired by Jules Verne and the unexpected fortune of failing to find a job
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Opinion
Turning negative results into positives
Publishing unsuccessful experiments is more important than ever as we try to train machines in chemistry