All second world war articles
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OpinionPodbielniak’s contactor
How a new spin on separation produced petroleum, penicillin and much more
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OpinionStable isotopic analysis identifies unknown casualties of war
Humanitarian aid provided by forensic science
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OpinionLife as a chemist in the second world war
Margaret Appleton shares the recollections of her father Robert Hopkins, a chemist at the De Havilland Aircraft Company
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OpinionLeif Tronstad: the heavy water hero
The chemist who ended Nazi attempts to make an atomic bomb
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ResearchLondon soil pollution worst on former Blitz bomb sites
Study links heavy metal enrichment to destruction of housing in 1940s
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PodcastTetranitromethane
Brian Clegg introduces a failed rocket fuel oxidiser with a very tricky structure
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PodcastChlorine trifluoride
Tabitha Watson introduces a poisonous, corrosive and extremely reactive compound that will start ‘roaring reactions’ with almost anything
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PodcastAqua regia
Capable of dissolving gold and platinum to help make 99.999% pure metals, aqua regia deserves its royal status
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ReviewToxic exposures: mustard gas and the health consequences of world war II in the United States
An insight into the murky world of chemical warfare
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ReviewWisdom of the Martians of science: in their own words with commentaries
The stories of John von Neumann, Theodor von Kármán, Leo Szilárd, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller