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Five years ago, the world was confronting a pandemic that has so far been linked to 700 million cases and more than 7 million deaths globally. The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines that began in late 2020 eventually contained the virus, but it…

When Covid-19 hit in early 2020, protein x-ray crystallographer Krystle McLaughlin, an assistant chemistry professor at Vassar College in New York, US, felt overwhelmed and ‘extra behind’. She had taken parental leave after having a…

Ukrainian native Anya Gryn’ova was a junior group leader at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) in Germany during the pandemic and now is an associate professor of computational chemistry at the University of Birmingham in…

Right after Liang Zhang, a young chemistry professor at East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, joined the university in January 2020, efforts to build the lab that would house his team were placed on hold by Covid-19. But Zhang…

Lean times are ahead for research and universities around the world. Few countries in the global north have escaped growing pessimism in the science sector as university leaders talk of ‘belt tightening’ and the need to ‘make savings’….

Lee Cronin, the regius chair of chemistry at the University of Glasgow, UK, who is also founder and chief executive of the deep tech chemical science company Chemify, faced significant challenges and struggles during the Covid-19 pandemic….