Last retort
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
How Doctor Who helped me find companions for my PhD adventure
Finding cultural common ground with aliens
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
Time for the working hours debate
As universities reopen, academics should make time to take breaks
Chemical detective work shows its power in latest Novichok saga
Analytical chemistry’s forensic feats are astounding but so commonplace now that we’ve become blasé to them
Peer review requires revisions
Peer review is not perfect, but nor is it fundamentally flawed
Is there life on Venus?
Or just chemistry we don’t quite understand yet?
Lessons from lockdown
19 lessons from Covid-19
All systems go
Boundaries encourage complex chemistry, but originality is important too
