In profile

  • Jani Ingram: ‘We have seen wells with uranium levels higher than the drinking water standard’

  • 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’

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Empowering voices: Advancing social mobility in the chemical sciences

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Learn more about socioeconomic barriers to equality in the chemical sciences – join us on 13 June

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Universities in the UK beat national average on gender pay gap but large discrepancies remain

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Report estimates that in 14 years’ time women in higher education will be paid the same as men

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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 academic’s social media posts showed support for Hamas

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

Dozens of seemingly templated review reports show evidence of coercive citation

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The data in our DNA

Forensic phenotyping raises ethical and societal questions

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Why are there metal particles in never-used cannabis vapes?

Findings cast doubt on past research showing metals are solely released by e-cigarettes when the devices’ coils are heated

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3D-printed capsules enhance speed and safety of synthetic chemistry

Encapsulated reagents allow chemists to ditch their Schlenk line to synthesise ferrocene

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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