Three activities that helped me to thrive in academia and beyond
Alice Motion suggests ways scientists can take inspiration from how events like the Olympics engage with viewers
Labs have an outsized environmental footprint but solutions are within reach
Even in this online era, some things are still best kept on paper
Offering complementary properties to batteries, their time might be round the corner
Speaking up to make our workplaces more inclusive
In the last 50 years, attitudes to safety have improved so that first-hand experience of lab incidents is now rare
Online courses and student-run projects show there’s great interest in discussing Davy’s links to slavery and scientific racism
Philip Ball is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster who explores the history and philosophy of chemistry
How Leo Szilard’s concept emerged from a rich interchange of ideas across disciplinary silos
Raychelle Burks is an associate professor in the US and an award-winning science communicator and broadcaster.
Investigating a medieval manufacturing mystery
Nessa Carson is a synthetic organic research chemist based in Macclesfield, UK
Our cognitive biases can make it difficult to choose what’s best for science
Chemjobber is a US-based industry insider, telling tales of tank reactors and organic obstacles
Even in this online era, some things are still best kept on paper
Derek Lowe is a medicinal chemist in the US, sharing wit and wisdom from a life spent in preclinical drug discovery
Having failed in the US Supreme Court, anti-abortion activists are trying other ways to prevent access to mifepristone
Alice Motion is an associate professor in Australia interested in citizen science, public outreach and education
Alice Motion suggests ways scientists can take inspiration from how events like the Olympics engage with viewers
Chris Nawrat (aka BRSM) is a process chemist at a major pharmaceutical company in the US
A rare example of a [6 + 2]-cycloaddition
Vanessa Seifert explores philosophical issues from the novel perspective of chemistry
It was crucial to the development of chemistry
Andrea Sella is a professor of inorganic chemistry in the UK with a passion for unravelling the unlikely origins of scientific kit
For the 200th Classic Kit, Andrea Sella celebrates a crucial efficiency improvement for motors
Three activities that helped me to thrive in academia and beyond
Sharing results that are not commercially viable would speed up research
Better pay can benefit the whole research enterprise
A focus on exams makes it harder for students to cultivate a deep understanding of their subject
The challenges – and importance – of questioning published results
Many powerful emotions motivate us in the search for new knowledge
The UK science secretary’s recent statements are causing alarm in the research community
Sharing results that are not commercially viable would speed up research
Labs have an outsized environmental footprint but solutions are within reach
Offering complementary properties to batteries, their time might be round the corner
Bench-stable transition metal–nitrene complexes beckon
Readers discuss DDT, reveal new information about Humphry Davy and ponder how to deal with errors
Sarah Gerhardt’s curiosity connects her passions for science, teaching and surfing
The Haitian-American neurochemist on her journey from Haiti to the US as a teenager, and her journey from chemistry to brain science
The synthetic inorganic chemist on attending a segregated school in Alabama, balancing football and chemistry, and tennis as a muse
The synthetic inorganic chemist on attending a segregated school in Alabama, balancing football and chemistry, and tennis as a muse
Impatient for change, she joined Paris-based sustainable ‘deep tech’ agency Hello Tomorrow
Eddie Heywood explains how having a range of drugs has helped a whole generation live with HIV – now their biggest concern is remembering to take them
Discovery that more than 80% of the tattoo inks sampled had unlisted ingredients prompts New York-based lab to launch a website providing chemical information to tattoo artists and their clients
How Xampla’s principal scientist Lynette Holland became an industry leader without sacrificing her work-life balance
How hoarding knowledge is hurting the industry in the long run
By Samantha Ratnayake
Sharing results that are not commercially viable would speed up research
Lab digitalisation and industry 4.0
By Thomas McGlone
How technology can help us run our labs more efficiently