Rachel Brazil
CareersHow to form a research collaboration
Five tips for success when partnering up in the name of science
CareersHow to get your research published
Writing your first paper can be daunting: here are five top tips
FeatureCombining homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
Can you make a catalyst that has the stability and recyclability of a heterogeneous one with the selectivity of a homogeneous one? Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists finding out
CareersHow to work in another country
Five tips for getting the most out of moving to a lab in a new land
FeatureIlluminating manuscript treasures
Rachel Brazil takes a look at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s illuminated manuscripts and learns their scientific stories
FeaturePhase to phase
Chemists are finding fascinating phase-change phenomena, discovers Rachel Brazil
CareersVideo games are enabling discovery
Gamification is harnessing an untapped army of citizen scientists
FeatureThe proteins of touch
Our sense of touch and balance is deeply ingrained in our experiences, but what are the chemical processes that make it work? Rachel Brazil investigates
Careers'How pragmatic is it to be a blind scientist?’
Mona Minkara on not letting loss of vision end her science ambitions
FeatureRaiders of the lost pigments
The old sculptures in museums have lost their original colour, but chemistry can help us discover how they used to look
CareersTime to lose chemistry’s subdisciplines?
Organic, inorganic and physical – do they mean anything in modern chemistry?
FeatureDrugging the epigenome
Drugs that change how your genes are switched on or off could change how we treat many diseases, as Rachel Brazil discovers
FeatureRefugee scientists
Rachel Brazil looks at schemes to help refugee scientists in the past, present and future
