Celebrating science's forgotten heroes
Betty Wright Harris’s explosive career
Masataka Ogawa and the search for nipponium
Elizabeth Fulhame, the 18th century chemistry pioneer who faded from history
William Knox, the only Black supervisor in the Manhattan Project
Margaret Melhase Fuchs and the radioactive isotope
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The long future of nuclear waste
Although enthusiasm for atomic energy has waxed and waned over the decades, Bárbara Pinho finds the question of waste has yet to be solved
Changing the game in protein structure prediction
Have AlphaFold and other machine learning techniques essentially solved the formerly fiendish problem, or is there still more to be done? Clare Sansom reports
The wonderful wizards of wood
Clever chemistry can turn humble timber into a sustainable material with many uses, Kit Chapman finds
Mission to Uranus
With no spacecraft visiting the ice giants for over 30 years, Anthony King speaks to the planetary scientists planning a return visit
