Chemistry features and long reads

The Middle East’s synchrotron is open Sesame

How difficult is it to build a world-class research facility in the Middle East? Kit Chapman investigates

Clare Sansom looks at the complex world of the spliceosome, a molecular machine in all our cells

After a decade of grassroots growth, the laboratory sustainability movement is bursting into the mainstream finds James Mitchell Crow

Kit Chapman takes a tour of a US Department of Energy lab, where 3D printing is performed on a massive scale

Adjuvants: vaccines’ hidden helpers
By Anthony King
Anthony King examines a crucial part of vaccines that can significantly boost their performance, but which often go unrecognised
Catching the polluters
By Andy Extance
Measurement techniques can pinpoint emitters like unroadworthy trucks and broken gas pipes, finds Andy Extance, but are not yet widespread
The search for cancer vaccines
By Claire Jarvis
Claire Jarvis looks at ongoing work to prevent the disease – and convince a sceptical community of their seriousness

2020-01-27T09:46:00+00:00By Nina Notman

Nina Notman explores how chemistry is poised to close the loop in clothing recycling

Postdoc employment status varies widely
By Rebecca Trager
Researchers are vulnerable to financial instability and issues with healthcare
Moving towards fairer academic rewards
By Rachel Brazil
New incentive systems take into account more than just a researcher’s publication history
Results of the 2019 Pay and Reward Survey
By Emma Pewsey
Salaries have increased in line with inflation, and while the gender pay gap persists, it is at its lowest-ever level

Nina Notman explores how chemistry is poised to close the loop in clothing recycling

Kit Chapman asks the champion of actinide chemistry and diversity in science what comes next as she starts her new role at a US national lab

Can chemists crack our cells’ sugar code?
By Rachel Brazil
Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to understand the sweet mystery of the glycome
Can smart biomaterials deliver?
By James Mitchell Crow
James Mitchell Crow explores the next generation of therapeutic biomaterials, which aim to interact dynamically with the body and help to control diabetes and heal wounds
The chemistry of a curry
By Nina Notman
Can chemistry help Nina Notman make a better curry?

Universities are moving to online classes, while research projects grind to a halt at some institutes

Efforts to tackle the virus have seen unprecedented cross-border collaboration

2018-04-27T10:30:00+01:00By Nina Notman

Nina Notman explores how 3D printing is carving out a niche for itself in the pharmaceutical industry

Can re-purposed science help us understand more than the physical world? Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to play swap

Thousands of papers have been published on curcumin’s healing potential, but its usefulness is not yet proven, finds Andy Extance

A battery technology worth its salt
By Nina Notman
With lithium-containing batteries facing constraints on many of the metals they contain, Nina Notman looks at whether its group 1 neighbour sodium can supply the answer
Single-atom catalysis
By Andy Extance
Single atom and hierarchical nanopore catalysts are reducing the need for precious metals, and could clean up the energy and chemical industries, finds Andy Extance
The lithium pioneers
By Katrina Krämer
Katrina Krämer traces the full story of how lithium-ion batteries won the 2019 Nobel prize