Celebrating science's forgotten heroes
William Knox, the only Black supervisor in the Manhattan Project
Margaret Melhase Fuchs and the radioactive isotope
PC Ray: A genius chemist who dreamed of a modern India
Jim West’s marvellous microphone
Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier the invisible assistant
June Lindsey, another forgotten woman in the story of DNA
James LuValle, a chemist who broke the colour barrier
The lifesaving work of Evelyn Hickmans
Clara Immerwahr – out of her husband’s shadow
Kathleen Culhane Lathbury – an industrial pioneer
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The incredible antibodies of sharks, llamas and camels
Sharks and llamas share a strange quirk of their immune systems. Hayley Bennett finds out how their ‘nanobodies’ could help us tackle Covid and a host of other diseases
The human health observatory in our sewers
From tracking disease outbreaks to monitoring drug use, there’s a lot to be learned from the things we flush down the toilet, Katrina Krämer finds
Life’s chemistry goes through the looking glass
Chemists were taught that natural systems only use L-amino acids. Andy Extance finds out just how wrong that is proving
Not just batteries: The chemistry of electric cars
The materials required in battery-powered cars are providing new challenges to chemists and the chemical industry. Clare Sansom reports
