Celebrating science's forgotten heroes
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
Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements
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From their colonial roots to future alternatives, Kit Chapman looks at the chemistry of natural elastomers
2020: the year the world changed
Andy Extance discovers how scientists around the world have responded to the pandemic, working on solutions from drugs and vaccines to hand sanitiser and PPE
Sustainable Covid-19 protection
Discarding our pandemic face masks could be an environmental disaster. Clare Sansom looks at the alternatives
How does a cell know what kind of cell it should be?
Philip Ball investigates how cells use condensed ‘blobs’ to collect the molecules involved in regulating genes