In profile

  • Bin Liu: ‘Breakthroughs always need patience’

  • Shirley Meng: 'I think science is as beautiful as art'

  • Julia Kornfield: ‘I’ve often followed an instinct about a person’

  • Maria Augusta Arruda: ‘Poetry is my refuge’

  • Morten Meldal: ‘I made some of the most beautiful fireworks’

  • Karin Markides: ‘I didn’t follow the rules’

  • Valerie Mizrahi: ‘There’s no control to the experiment of life’

  • Wunmi Sadik: ‘I still see myself as the young girl explaining chemistry to my mother’

  • Steven Chu: ‘I’m in the process of learning chemistry’

  • Margaret Faul: ‘Stand for what you think is right’

Female scientist

Taking a feminist standpoint on chemistry

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How gender may influence scientific knowledge

Michelle Donelan

UKRI investigation clears diversity panel following science minister’s accusations of extremism

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Michelle Donelan pays damages over claims that academics’ social media posts showed support for Hamas

Accessible chemistry

Visionary chemistry is making labs accessible to blind students and researchers

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Efforts underway in Texas are ushering in a new era of inclusivity with mouth models, lithophanes, robots, talking tools and more

Vivian Cheung

US researcher vows to appeal after losing her disability discrimination suit

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Concerns raised that jury’s decision might dissuade disabled researchers from asking for help, but HHMI says Vivian Cheung’s science was subpar

Question marks on a scientific experiment

Design of experiments

Quizzes and resources to help you to become better at designing experiments. Created in partnership with JMP

Man looking at paper

Review mills identified as a new form of peer-review fraud

Dozens of seemingly templated review reports show evidence of coercive citation

A picture showing the visualization of genomic data

The data in our DNA

Forensic phenotyping raises ethical and societal questions

Arkema flooding

EPA’s updated chemical risk management plans rile industry groups

12,000 chemical plants required to draw up emergency plans for extreme weather and share hazard information with local communities

Black smoke

Making chemicals safe and sustainable

The green transition is an opportunity to also make industry simpler and safer

Police

‘Hobby chemist’ guilty of possession of acids without a licence

Cheshire man receives 12-month community order