Last retort
Reimagining the Nobel prize
Honour 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
(±)-Rhabdastrellic acid A
A triterpene that looks innocuous until it reveals the highly strained conformation of its rings
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
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
How can we tackle fake science news?
Complex topics make bogus research news even harder to tackle – but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try
Electrolytes are no longer a postscript to the battery story
Just because electrolytes are effectively inert, doesn’t mean they can’t be sophisticated
Alzheimer’s drug revival prompts questions
Is reinstating a once-discarded drug good news?
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
