More features – Page 17
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Beer: Music to your taste buds
Andy Extance goes on tour in the UK and Belgium and compares the science behind the different processes used by craft and mass brewers
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Every breath you take
Nina Notman meets the chemists looking to clear the air around indoor air pollution
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Staying one step ahead of the game
Clare Sansom examines the need for agile drug development when tackling emerging viral disease outbreaks
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Phase to phase
Chemists are finding fascinating phase-change phenomena, discovers Rachel Brazil
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Marie Curie, the migrant chemist
150 years after Marie Curie’s birth, Mike Sutton delves into her life and research
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CO2 recycling – an uphill struggle
James Mitchell Crow explains how chemists are turning a problematic greenhouse gas into commercially useful molecules, at industrial scale
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Cryo-EM: a cold, hard look at biology
Super cool microscopy wins the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry
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What do Nobel laureates do to relax?
We asked seven chemistry Nobel laureates what they do to relax
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Nobel laureate interviews
We asked seven chemistry Nobel laureates what their favourite molecule is, and learnt a few things we weren’t expecting
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The long road to an HIV vaccine
A vaccine may not be available anytime soon, but its proponents are hard at work
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Photoredox: charge of the LED brigade
Forget fluorescent light bulbs, photochemistry has become a lot more sophisticated
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Recycling is taking back plastic
Angeli Mehta explores the evolution of plastic recycling technology and looks to a rubbish-free future
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The rising tide of 'legal highs'
Andy Extance investigates the chemistry that has helped recreational drugs evade the law, and its consequences
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Arsenic and rice - a growing problem?
Hayley Bennett highlights rice’s natural affinity for arsenic and what researchers are doing about it
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Environmentally benign by design
The challenge of designing drugs with biodegradability in mind
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Hofmann's chemistry factory
How two German chemists shaped chemistry education and research in Britain
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Quantum chemistry on quantum computers
The special properties of quantum computers should make them ideal for accurately modelling chemical systems, Philip Ball discovers
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The proteins of touch
Our sense of touch and balance is deeply ingrained in our experiences, but what are the chemical processes that make it work? Rachel Brazil investigates
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The science of distilling gin
Do you know your cold compound from your London dry? Nina Notman sorts through the botanicals to find the perfect cocktail