All Editorials articles – Page 4
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Opinion
Bottling summer lightning
Our features editor reflects on how nature’s sound and light show affects the atmosphere, and the long track to harness fusion
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Careers
PhD students don’t need second jobs – they need paying above minimum wage
Recommended minimum stipends for UK-based PhDs failed to match inflation since 2005, exacerbating the current cost-of-living crisis
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Opinion
Farsighted science
The Webb telescope looks set to deliver on its promise to change the way we see the universe
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Careers
Scientific success is built on failure
Things going wrong doesn’t mean that you’re inadequate
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Opinion
Energy is the Achilles’ heel of carbon capture technologies
Efforts to trap carbon dioxide could consume a huge amount of forecast renewable energy growth
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Opinion
An idea that clicked
Bioorthogonal reactions – doing chemistry inside living cells without blasting everything in sight – are no mean feat
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Opinion
Reformed and refreshed
Chemistry comes out of the latest Research Excellence Framework exercise looking good
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Careers
Break down barriers by explaining jargon
Journal publishers should do more to help researchers communicate clearly
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Careers
When you can’t tell the whole truth in a job interview
We can’t expect interviewees to open up about themselves if that puts them at risk of discrimination
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Opinion
Diversifying in two dimensions
Artisanal assemblies are opening up pathways to exciting and exotic phenomena
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Opinion
We need our simple symbols, but machines might not
Will the curly arrow still be with us in another 100 years?
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Opinion
Because it isn’t there
Why do chemists do what they do? The underlying philosophy for many of us is the same as it has been for centuries
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Opinion
What next for the US’s China Initiative after the case against MIT’s Gang Chen falls apart?
The US’s probe into researchers’ ties to China and potential theft of intellectual property stands on a knife edge