Last retort
Reimagining the Nobel prize
Honor discoveries, not discoverers
What not to wear: lab edition
Your health and safety advisor is not your personal stylist
Avoiding air travel as an academic
Fight against global warming by staying grounded
Organic matter
Stereoselectivity with a twist
Helical ligands amplify solvent chirality to control reaction outcomes
Am I really a scientist?
Whether in a lab, an office or on a stage, we are no strangers to wrestling with self-identity
(+)-Microladallene B
A weird structure is enough to spark chemists’ interest, even without any obvious use
Structuring a crystallographic database
Matt Lightfoot on navigating a career around the Cambridge Structural Database
Cleaning up misinterpreted forensic evidence
Ruth Morgan is on the case of incorrect court rulings
Harnessing plants and microbes to tackle environmental pollution
Eucharia Nwaichi is using biochemistry to clean up one of the most polluted places on Earth
From the editors
Good enough at last
Neil Withers reflects on the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry, awarded for developing lithium-ion batteries
The end of the periodic table?
The superheavy elements might break our beloved table
Don’t be sniffy about sewage – or concrete
Do you flush and forget? Time to make a stink about concrete’s emissions
Under a cloud
Chemical detective work is needed to track down what’s been killing e-cigarette users
Is bankruptcy best for Purdue?
Many would prefer to see the Sackler family held personally liable, and the company wound down
In science we trust
The questions is how can scientists maintain that faith and keep the fire burning?
