University of Hawaii

News

Researcher severely injured in 2016 Hawaii lab explosion receives £5 million settlement

Thea Ekins-Coward lost an arm in an experiment with unsafe apparatus

Bacchus and Ariadne

Opinion

The fungal source of Titian’s rich reds

Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus

A scientist helps two visually impaired high school students perform a chemistry experiment with a bottle of fizzy drink and a balloon. The students are smiling as they feel the changes to the objects.

News

Chemistry for the visually impaired that can be felt, heard and smelt

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, recently brought chemistry alive for students with sight loss

Wizard with black cat and flask

Opinion

In search of the alchemists of Prague

A city where chemistry lurks almost anywhere you look

NMR

Opinion

Getting good at human tasks

’What do you mean you had to lock the NMR with an oscilloscope and shim the magnet by hand?’

Opinion

Ponnadurai Ramasami: ‘You will learn more by going the more difficult way’

The trailblazing computational chemist on the joys of teaching, inaugurating a virtual conference, and the importance of doing things the hard way

Careers

How to excel at public speaking

A five-step approach to present effectively

News

How do you rebuild your lab after it is hit by an Iranian missile?

Milko van der Boom talks to Chemistry World about dealing with destruction at the Weizmann Institute, saving samples and people coming together

Highlights

Cecilia Payne and spectral lines

The young female astronomer who worked out what the sun is made of

100 years ago, Cecilia Payne deduced that the sun is mainly made of hydrogen – but was encouraged to downplay her findings by her PhD supervisor. Mike Sutton takes up the story

Women in medical waiting room

Fixing medicine’s gender gap

For centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity

Woman moving from one table to another in a restaurant

Managing the menopause

The end of ovulation will affect almost all women, but current treatments could be improved. Rachel Brazil reports on the efforts to find a better solution

Melanie Sanford with a green chalkboard and chemistry symbols

Melanie Sanford’s route from college gymnast to groundbreaking researcher

One-time gymnast Melanie Sanford has made a name for herself in catalysis and organometallic chemistry. Rebecca Trager charts her path to success, from her mentors to her mentoring

All 20 people

20 years. 20 chemists. 20 stories. Part 2

How has chemistry changed in the last two decades?

A scientist helps two visually impaired high school students perform a chemistry experiment with a bottle of fizzy drink and a balloon. The students are smiling as they feel the changes to the objects.

Chemistry for the visually impaired that can be felt, heard and smelt

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, recently brought chemistry alive for students with sight loss

Women climbing different ladders

Opinion

Nurturing socioeconomic inclusion for a brighter tomorrow

Understanding why individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are underrepresented in the chemical sciences

Women in medical waiting room

Feature

Fixing medicine’s gender gap

For centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity

Opinion

The women-led health projects doing things differently

Innovative approaches to awareness and participation

Feature

Managing the menopause

The end of ovulation will affect almost all women, but current treatments could be improved. Rachel Brazil reports on the efforts to find a better solution

Careers

The All-Ireland Network for Gender Equality in Chemistry is going for gold

Sharing best practices across chemistry departments to create better working environments and get Athena Swan accreditation

An illustrated portrait of Mary Sherman Morgan

Mary Sherman Morgan: The best kept secret in the space race

Anna Demming reveals the scientist who invented the fuel that powered the first US satellite into orbit, yet died with barely a trace on record of her achievements

An image showing a framed portrait of Martin Gouterman

Martin Gouterman: the gay man behind the four-orbital model

Abhik Ghosh tells the story of a porphyrin chemist who was a leading figure in Seattle’s gay rights movement of the 1960s

William Knox Jr

William Knox, the only Black supervisor in the Manhattan Project

The story of the Knox family is one of education overcoming adversity, finds Kit Chapman

Ponnadurai Ramasami

Ponnadurai Ramasami: ‘You will learn more by going the more difficult way’

The trailblazing computational chemist on the joys of teaching, inaugurating a virtual conference, and the importance of doing things the hard way

Robyn Norton

Robyn Norton: ‘We needed to make sure that women were included’

The pioneering global health researcher on the importance of including women in medical research, face-to-face networking and kindness

Willie May

Willie May: ‘We need to find and support the “missing millions”’

The analytical chemist on growing up Black in Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s and his journey through NIST, academia and the AAAS presidency

Scientist looking inside nose

Opinion

What the smell of benzene tells us about the world

A philosophical discussion about how much we can trust our senses

Women of Salerno and Trota

Opinion

How feminist bioethics can improve women’s health

From correcting research imbalances to placing value on lived experiences

Opinion

Symbols and tables in chemistry

Looking beyond today’s periodic table

Opinion

In search of truth and rules

To codify and predict ever more complex phenomena is one of science’s great drivers

Opinion

Classifications, racial discrimination and Covid-19

Lessons with philosophical significance for how we group people and objects

Opinion

The moral theories behind climate deadlock

Why is it so controversial to do the right thing for the environment?

Opinion

Did AI just win the Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry?

The importance of the expert eye in scientific progress

Opinion

How much science should there be in philosophy?

A debate about metaphysics that’s crucial to how we understand the world

Hands in latex gloves use tweazers to remove a blue pigment from an old falcon figurine

Research

Ancient ‘Egyptian Blue’ pigment recipes recreated

Work could aid conservation of Egyptian artefacts

Lego periodic table

News

Campaign launched to get Lego periodic table playset out there

Spanish scientist wants people to vote for his spiral table to get Lego to bring it to life

Dance your PhD winner

News

Food chemist takes top prize of annual Dance your PhD contest

Interpretive dance explains thesis on why chillis burn and menthol cools

Bacchus and Ariadne

Opinion

The fungal source of Titian’s rich reds

Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus

Opinion

In search of the alchemists of Prague

A city where chemistry lurks almost anywhere you look

Opinion

Contemporary chemistry owes a lot to benzene's beginnings

Celebrating what started when Faraday found the molecule with no end

Feature

Fixing medicine’s gender gap

For centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity

Opinion

The women-led health projects doing things differently

Innovative approaches to awareness and participation

University of Hawaii

News

Researcher severely injured in 2016 Hawaii lab explosion receives £5 million settlement

Thea Ekins-Coward lost an arm in an experiment with unsafe apparatus

NMR

Opinion

Getting good at human tasks

’What do you mean you had to lock the NMR with an oscilloscope and shim the magnet by hand?’

Opinion

Ponnadurai Ramasami: ‘You will learn more by going the more difficult way’

The trailblazing computational chemist on the joys of teaching, inaugurating a virtual conference, and the importance of doing things the hard way

News

How do you rebuild your lab after it is hit by an Iranian missile?

Milko van der Boom talks to Chemistry World about dealing with destruction at the Weizmann Institute, saving samples and people coming together

News

Shake-up for unpopular procurement system that left Indian scientists with substandard supplies

Changes will see researchers, departments and universities able to buy equipment without going through government’s online portal

A scientist helps two visually impaired high school students perform a chemistry experiment with a bottle of fizzy drink and a balloon. The students are smiling as they feel the changes to the objects.

News

Chemistry for the visually impaired that can be felt, heard and smelt

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, recently brought chemistry alive for students with sight loss

Ponnadurai Ramasami

Opinion

Ponnadurai Ramasami: ‘You will learn more by going the more difficult way’

The trailblazing computational chemist on the joys of teaching, inaugurating a virtual conference, and the importance of doing things the hard way

Speaker

Careers

How to excel at public speaking

A five-step approach to present effectively

Elements

Opinion

Helping remote schools be in their element

The element sets now found in over half of Australian high schools

Opinion

Why I returned the Faraday prize to the Royal Society

Andrea Sella explains how inaction over Elon Musk’s membership motivated him to act

Opinion

The art of failing forward

Negative results still mean positive progress

News

Food chemist takes top prize of annual Dance your PhD contest

Interpretive dance explains thesis on why chillis burn and menthol cools