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News
With departments and courses facing closures UK chemistry needs a new hero
Harry Kroto’s star status helped to save the subject 20 years ago
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Opinion
Science needs to get its house in order when it comes to energy use and waste
Labs have an outsized environmental footprint but solutions are within reach
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Opinion
Can supercapacitors be the next energy superheroes?
Offering complementary properties to batteries, their time might be round the corner
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Opinion
Humphry Davy’s whole story – warts and all – deserves to be told
Offensive comments about other races and cultures are part of his legacy too
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Opinion
Allotrope or not?
Loose terminology causes disquiet among guardians of the chemical nomenclature
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Opinion
High entropy or just complex?
Several elements mixed in a single crystal phase isn’t necessarily a high entropy material
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Opinion
Crystal prophecies
There’s no guarantee that making a thermodynamically feasible structure will be easy, or even possible
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Opinion
One year on from ChatGPT’s launch does it offer hope or hype for science?
Chatbots could help chemists but their limitations need to be understood
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Opinion
UK researchers need to know academic freedom is safe from political interference
The UK science secretary’s recent statements are causing alarm in the research community
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Opinion
The PFAS problem in everyone’s back yard
Communities around the world will have to get to grips with a new pollution problem that will cost billions to address