Last retort
The safety dance
A little lab explosion and it’s health and safety gone mad…
Prize doppelgangers
Judging posters isn’t easy, especially when you’re seeing double
The seven ages of chemistry
One scientist’s progress from childhood to PhD and beyond
Organic matter
(–)-Callyspongiolide
Ringing the changes with some unconventional chemistry
Ketones perform at the palladium
C–H activation takes the stress out of organometallic couplings
Changing the reproducibility rulebook
It pays to know when taking shortcuts is acceptable, and which it’s safe to take
From cement to batteries with help from a wombat
Vanessa Peterson is in the fast lane when it comes to relating atomic-scale structures to a material’s function
Carolyn Bertozzi
One-time heavy rocker Carolyn Bertozzi has made a name for herself with hit papers and sound science. Sarah Houlton charts her path to success
Harvesting holes
Shilun Qiu was a farmer; now he’s a distinguished professor
From the editors
Powers of prediction
If the terrifyingly difficult problem of protein folding is getting closer to a solution, what other intractable problems are ripe for answering?
Chemistry on the front line
The truth must out in Salisbury spy poisoning case
Abandoning science's jet set
We’re not ready to avoid conferences to cut our carbon footprints
Chemistry's image problem
Hundreds of thousands of images fall into only seven categories
How to be an awesome chemist
It’s not really about science at all…
Give it to me straight
Breaking down jargon to rebuild trust
