Celebrating science's forgotten heroes
Julia Lermontova: an early pioneer
Margarita Salas: the marquesa of molecular biology
Sylvia Stoesser – the first female chemist at Dow
Martin Gouterman: the gay man behind the four-orbital model
Stefanie Horovitz – the woman behind the isotope
Marguerite Perey and the last element in nature
Ghanaian biochemistry TV star Marian Addy
Barbara Low, penicillin and the protein pi helix
Alice Ball’s treatment for leprosy
Eunice Foote: the mother of climate change
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DNA machines get a move on
Devices made from nucleic acids are starting to find their feet, says Nina Notman
Biden thrills US research community with his science ‘dream team’
The new US president has elevated the role of science in the White House