Last retort
Are you slowly turning into your supervisor?
Old habits die hard – even when they’re someone else’s…
The price of a failed experiment
Research is not straightforward, but its ups and downs will teach you a lot
The many roles of a lab scientist
Chemist, builder, mechanic, engineer, nurse, firefighter…
Organic matter
(+)-Microladallene B
A weird structure is enough to spark chemists’ interest, even without any obvious use
'Coffee machine' synthesiser's first steps
Cartridge-based machine enables non-experts to make heterocycles
Making a meme of it
Shared cultural knowledge can be both boon and bondage
Harnessing plants and microbes to tackle environmental pollution
Eucharia Nwaichi is using biochemistry to clean up one of the most polluted places on Earth
The protein crystallisation influencer
Naomi Chayen discusses her career manipulating phase diagrams to produce high-quality protein crystals
Cluster fundamentals
Stefanie Dehnen discusses the exotic structures of inorganic chemistry’s middle ground
From the editors
Closing time?
Bangor may come to regret shutting its chemistry department
Troubled waters
Don’t let a good story outgrow the facts
Is Bayer regretting its Monsanto takeover?
Large damages in Roundup litigation have got investors questioning the move
Righting history
Archaeology can offer unique perspectives on our place in the world, but the field has some challenges to overcome along the way
Show me the data
Making industrial safety research more transparent benefits both companies and consumers
Death of the author
The first machine-generated book in chemistry is here. But is it any good? And what future does it herald?
