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News and current affairs
Science hit the headlines via the world in 2017, with Marches for science rising against the Trump administration in particular. And Brexit may mean Brexit, but what does it mean for chemistry?
Atoms and bonding
All the big developments in chemistry research, including bonding, reactions and synthesis, materials and the rise of digital chemistry
Biochemistry and medicine
From a Nobel prize in imaging biological systems to developing powerful fresh painkillers, chemists have been at the forefront of medical innovation in 2017
History and culture
Chemists proceed to help us understand our history, shedding light on materials and practices behind good works of art, while shaping the culture we live in
Latest news
Teva to cut 14,000 jobs
22 December 2017
Saddled with debt in an increasingly competitive generic drug industry, the Israel-headquartered giant starts a difficult transformation
Molecular knot gets Guinness world record
2017 in review – Current affairs
2017 in review – Atoms, bonding, materials and synthesis
2017 in review – Biochemistry and medicine
Latest research
Organic glaze might explain interstellar object’s missing tail
22 December 2017
Molecular box treats chemists to a strained surprise
22 December 2017
Molecular map-making simplified
21 December 2017
Super-reducing solvated electrons made with an LED
21 December 2017
MOF squeezes catalyst into form for switching reactivity
20 December 2017
Fossil isotopes expose life’s diversity Three.Five billion years ago
20 December 2017
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Features
Illuminating manuscript treasures
By Rachel Brazil
Rachel Brazil takes a look at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s illuminated manuscripts and learns their scientific stories
From venoms to medicine
Venoms are a treasure trove of peptides that may provide a bounty of novel painkillers
Beer: Music to your taste buds
Andy Extance goes on tour in the UK and Belgium and compares the science behind the different processes used by craft and mass brewers
Business
Teva to cut 14,000 jobs
Saddled with debt in an increasingly competitive generic drug industry, the Israel-headquartered giant embarks a difficult transformation
Chemical industry roundup 2017
Economic and political pressure is encouraging industry to become more specialised as certain sectors consolidate
Pharmaceuticals roundup 2017
Political influence has strongly shaped industry activity in the past year
Sanofi ordered to pull dengue vaccine
Philippines wants French drugmaker to cover immunization program costs
Nova Chemicals expands in Canada
Company to spend over C$Two billion growing its steam cracker by 50% and building a fresh polyethylene facility
DuPont and Sumitomo link up for seed treatments
Firms will collaborate to develop and commercialise seed-applied technologies
Working life
Meet the resistance
13 December 2017 By Rachel Brazil
The scientists taking a stand against politics they oppose
Voyage to the bottom of the sea
Susan Humphris investigates the Atlantic’s hydrothermal vents
Who is the greatest chemist of all time?
Spoiler: you said it was Marie Curie. But how we define greatness matters
Not home for the holidays
Tales of being stuck in the lab
The European adviser
Elvira Fortunato shares how she found herself at the heart of EU science policy
Taking the stage
The modern face of engaging with the public through science
From our columnists
For the sake of argument
It’s significant to recognise which disputes can actually be resolved by science
Doctor tweet love
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Twitter
Switching the reproducibility rulebook
It pays to know when taking shortcuts is acceptable, and which it’s safe to take
‘We all want to be The Dude’
Venki Ramakrishnan on optimism, Jane Austen and why he wants to be Jeff Bridges
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Silicones – enabling the next big leap in prosthetics and health
White paper: Five ways to optimise lab efficiency
Pharma supply chains pick up rhythm
Silicones – enabling the next big leap in prosthetics and health
White paper: Five ways to optimise lab efficiency
Pharma supply chains pick up rhythm
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Webinars
Optimising your experimentation process using JMP: GSK case probe
Quality management of the Karl Fischer system
Solving the issues in standardisation of stereochemical representations
Optimising your experimentation process using JMP: GSK case probe
Quality management of the Karl Fischer system
Solving the issues in standardisation of stereochemical representations
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Fructose
By Michael Freemantle
Super-sweet and packed with preserving power, Mike Freemantle detects that fructose can help keep things fresh long after the sell-by date
TEMPO – (Two,Two,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxyl
Katrina Krämer speaks to organic chemist Daniel Allwood about a multi-talented molecule that proves that not all radicals live up to their name
Aluminium chloride
Brian Clegg becomes a sleuth to investigate the uses of a deceptively plain Lewis acid
Book Club – Chemistry
By Chemistry World
First-time novelist Weike Wang takes us inwards the mind of a Chinese American PhD student in Boston
Acesulfame potassium
By Michael Freemantle
A sweet solution to monitoring contaminated water
Sildenafil (Viagra)
Kat Arney investigates one of the fastest selling drugs of all time
Retrospective
Who is the greatest chemist of all time?
Spoiler: you said it was Marie Curie. But how we define greatness matters
The origins of chemical industry?
How the mines of Zewar transformed zinc production
George de Hevesy’s chemistry Nobel medal up for auction
Collection of medals of radiochemist who hid two other Nobel laureates’ gold medals from the Nazis by dissolving them is expected to fetch £120,000
Ancient Egyptian uprisings triggered by volcanic eruptions
Fresh evidence that switches in atmospheric chemistry caused social stresses and uprisings against the ruling elite
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In-house training speeds up metabolism
The benefits of blends
Silicones – enabling the construction revolution
Controlling the temperature
Sygnature Discovery
White paper: Substituting traditional chemicals in the beamhouse
White paper: Analytical method transfer
Pittcon 2017
Enlargening lab efficiencies through bespoke solutions
Webinars
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Benchtop NMR applications – dodgy drugs, industrial analysis and research
Who says there are no shortcuts to fine chemistry?
Digital transformation: fuelling innovation in the chemical industry
Future chemistry: exploring the possibility space
Best practice in Karl Fischer titration
Current topics in bioconjugation
Mass spectrometry for chemists – direct analysis of TLC plates, solids and gases
How to ensure water quality doesn’t compromise your analytical results
Learn more from your experiments with DoE in JMP
Emerging trends and technologies in forensic toxicology
Reviews
The secret science of superheroes
Aurora Walshe reviews a book that will make you laugh like an evil genius
Exhibition: codebreakers and groundbreakers
A chance to read Alan Turing’s school reports and see an Enigma machine borrowed from GCHQ
Adapt: how we can learn from nature’s strangest inventions
Laura Fisher reviews a tale of bio-inspired technology
Not a scientist: how politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science
A book that looks critically at the way science is treated by policymakers, reviewed by Susan Vickers
Is the universe a hologram? Scientists reaction the most provocative questions
From Nobel chemists pondering politics to computer scientists musing on Plato
Christmas bounty guide
Our top picks from this year’s popular science books
Scale: the universal laws of life and death in organisms, cities and companies
Geoffrey West’s book outlines his research on the maths behind sophisticated systems of all kinds
Soonish: Emerging technologies that will improve and/or ruin everything
A look at what could happen in the near-ish future
Chemistry
A coming-of-age novel by a former Harvard chemist
Catch up on Classic Kit
Witt’s Plate
The chemist caught in the 19th century battle for colour
Winkler’s Bed
The accidental discovery that led to fluidisation
Bodenstein’s gauge
The apparatus that commenced a chain reaction of chemical discovery
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