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Scientist studying a protein with a camera

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Serial femtosecond crystallography reveals protein dynamics in real time

Proteins are constantly moving, but our structures of them are static. Clare Sansom talks to the researchers using free-electron lasers to make time-resolved structures

Antarctica viewed from above

Feature

Carbon in an ice world

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there’s plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains what it can tell us about the climate and pollution across the globe

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Chemistry ‘cold spots’ emerging across the UK, RSC warns

Some regions face a future with fewer chemists

Benzene and bunting in chalk on a blackboard

Opinion

Benzene at 200

Celebrating the molecule that changed the world

Kekule, Faraday and Mitscherlich in a party collage

Opinion

Benzene’s 200-year legacy of transformation

As we celebrate the anniversary of benzene’s isolation, we must remember that scientific centenaries carry additional agendas

Nora de Leeuw

Nora de Leeuw: ‘Some of my best PhD students weren’t that great at passing exams’

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The computational chemist on perspectives from outside academia and the importance of inquisitiveness

Stamp of Al-Biruni

Al-Biruni’s pyknometer

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Accuracy transmitted through the ages

Methylamine

Make versus buy (or steal)

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How methylamine reveals a routine question for chemists

Chinese traditional medicine manufacturing

China’s drug development charge

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Reforms and state support have fuelled domestic and foreign investment in pharmaceutical

Chemistry ‘deserts’ threaten to push poorer undergraduates out

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Course and departmental closures in the UK are creating ‘cold spots’, leaving students high and dry

Cracking under pressure

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Basic chemical plant closures highlight strain on European industry

The fungal source of Titian’s rich reds

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Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus

In search of the alchemists of Prague

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A city where chemistry lurks almost anywhere you look

Nora de Leeuw

Opinion

Nora de Leeuw: ‘Some of my best PhD students weren’t that great at passing exams’

The computational chemist on perspectives from outside academia and the importance of inquisitiveness

Stamp of Al-Biruni

Opinion

Al-Biruni’s pyknometer

Accuracy transmitted through the ages

Webinar

Nature’s amazing chemistry: reflections on its complexity and diversity

Join us on 16 September as we take a walk on the wild side to discover the wacky and wonderful chemical mysteries of the natural world

Opinion

Make versus buy (or steal)

How methylamine reveals a routine question for chemists

Research

Unique Iron Age kohl from Iran differs from that of ancient Egypt

Eye makeup found to contain graphite and manganese but not organic ingredients

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