Celebrating science's forgotten heroes
Mary Sherman Morgan: The best kept secret in the space race
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
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Smart tattoos are keeping tabs on our health
Nina Notman takes a snapshot of the burgeoning field of health and fitness monitoring tattoos and patches
Getting to the root of soil nitrogen
The farming industry’s reliance on nitrogen compounds is altering the environment, but Ian Le Guillou finds a better understanding of the interplay between plants and microbes could help to reduce the impact
Flow chemistry surges forward
The long-discussed technique could help make pharma manufacturing more distributed, finds Andy Extance, and create opportunities for chemists with the right skills
Sustainable solar power
Getting energy from the sun isn’t renewable until the panels are recyclable. James Mitchell Crow talks to the scientists making it happen