Last retort
Decolonising my mind
A road less trodden in science
Using social media for personal branding
Being honest online helped my career reach new heights
Not all scientists should be curing cancer
Basic research should be valued for its own sake
Organic matter
(+)-Vancomycin aglycon
Optimising for efficiency deserves credit too
Fully automated synthesis of fluorine-18 PET tracers
Making radioisotopes suitable for positron emission tomography
Enabling environments support the development of diverse teams
A great workplace allows individuals to be constrained only by the limits of their own minds
Searching for superconductors with supercomputers
What if most materials are superconductors under the right conditions, wonders José Flores-Livas
Chemists amid coronavirus: Anya Gryn’ova
The computational chemist has returned to her Heidelberg research institute after months of lockdown, and is thankful to be living in Germany
Translating snail venom research from beach to bench and beyond
Meet Mandë Holford, an interdisciplinary scientist following tangents that arise when exploring the molecular-level workings of venom peptides
From the editors
Vaccines on track
Early data provide hope of several effective options
Baking – it’s a chemistry thing
Anyone can bake, but can everyone do chemistry?
You can’t measure a mentor solely by gender
A mentoring relationship is inherently personal and unique
A promising peep at Covid-19 vaccine efficacy
Pfizer–BioNTech’s will need to be one of many if we are to overcome the pandemic
In praise of appraisals
Taking the opportunity to learn more about yourself – and your employer
Biden’s big win
The fact that Biden beat Trump to the White House by such a thin margin shows the limits of science communication
