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
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
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50 years of artemisinin
Jamie Durrani tells the story of how a wonder drug against malaria was discovered from a plant in a secret Chinese military project
Soil searching
Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to understand – and improve – the health of the planet’s soil
The plant trade’s scientific secrets
Growers are using advanced techniques to mass-produce the next trendy houseplant. But Katrina Krämer finds that collectors’ demand for new varieties has also opened the door to deception and fraud
Cultured meat flexes its muscles
Rebecca Trager examines an emerging industry that is growing ‘meat’ outside of animals using cell lines cultivated in bioreactors
