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Nature 442, 500-502 (3 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442500a; Published online 2 August 2006

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Chemistry: What chemists want to know

Philip Ball1

  1. Philip Ball is a consultant editor for Nature.

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Chemistry is a key component in all the scientific disciplines. But does that mean it is nothing more than a handy tool — or are there still major chemical questions to crack? Philip Ball finds out.

Physicists do not shy away from promoting the big questions that drive their field — how the Universe began, say, or what governs the behaviour of space, time and matter over scales from the atomic to the cosmic. Biologists, too, are happy to point to Erwin Schrödinger's question 'What is life?

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