Last retort
The many roles of a lab scientist
Chemist, builder, mechanic, engineer, nurse, firefighter…
The power of controlling lab purchases
Liaising with suppliers is more than just following orders
The lab where everything goes wrong
Some days feel like an episode of the Twilight Zone…
Organic matter
Making a meme of it
Shared cultural knowledge can be both boon and bondage
Jorunnamycin A
Sometimes synthetic ingenuity can trump nature
In search of ultimate selectivity
A catalyst that reacts only with aryl iodides, spurning bromides and chlorides
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
What elements are on your bucket list?
Why chemists want to work with everything on the periodic table
The ethics of corporate sponsorship
Ineos and Purdue highlight sponsorship issues
Have you had enough of the periodic table yet?
There are enough ways to organise the elements to suit everyone’s taste
Mind the funding gap
Understanding science’s diversity problem is the first step to fixing it
Smartly dressed
Smart materials are edging closer to being useful
It’s good to talk
The periodic table has started a global conversation
