Opinion
Super-powered science
Screaming fans excited about your research, the Sharpie on your lanyard for signing autographs – wouldn’t that be nice?
Careers
How to have fewer, more effective meetings
Five strategies that can help individuals and institutions manage meetings better
Opinion
Celebrating 100 years of the Pauli exclusion principle
How a quantum view of electron states enabled us to understand the stability of matter
Opinion
Charlotte Williams: ‘Being an academic is a wonderful job’
The award-winning inorganic chemist on early environmental influences and a career spanning industry and academia
Careers
How Lisa Alford inspires students and celebrates technicians
She was awarded the Royal Society’s 2024 Hauksbee award in recognition of her extraordinary achievements ‘behind the scenes’
Opinion
The right level of trust in the scientific literature
An overreliance on what’s gone before can hinder innovation
Webinar
Rising to the occasion: the chemistry of Easter breads
Join GBBO finalist Josh Smalley on 2 April to learn the scientific secrets of Easter bakes
Careers
Re-establishing my scientist identity in industry
How to embrace a career transition outside of academia
Highlights
20 years. 20 chemists. 20 stories. Part 2
How has chemistry changed in the last two decades?
The new signs bringing greater understanding to organic chemistry
Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developing a sign language lexicon for chemistry concepts that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone
The health of chemistry across the pipeline
More students in the UK are studying chemistry at A-level than 20 years ago, but how does that translate to universities?
How AI protein structure prediction and design won the Nobel prize
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won this year’s Nobel prize in chemistry. Jamie Durrani investigates the origins of a biochemistry revolution
The undergraduate lab practical transformation
Nina Notman speaks to the educators leading the charge to revamp how university students learn in the laboratory
New year honours recognise chemists’ services to inclusion and diversity
Services to biogeochemistry, science in government, and science and technology also rewarded in annual list
Feature
The new signs bringing greater understanding to organic chemistry
Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developing a sign language lexicon for chemistry concepts that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone
Opinion
Thriving as a Deaf chemistry PhD student
Asma Sheikh talks about growing up, discovering her passion for chemistry and being a teaching assistant
Opinion
The chemical industry is falling short on supporting women
Unless barriers are broken down, the future of the industry is unsustainable
News
Nobel prize winners far more likely to come from wealthy families highlighting inequality in the sciences
Winners today come, on average, from less wealthy families than when the prize began but there is still a long way to go
News
Women stay in science far longer than thought, study of OECD countries suggests
Analysis of publications reveals that, on average, women ‘survive’ as long as men across 16 scientific disciplines
Opinion
The science education programme partnering with people in prison
Think Like a Scientist focuses on empowering students
Mary Sherman Morgan: The best kept secret in the space race
Anna Demming reveals the scientist who invented the fuel that powered the first US satellite into orbit, yet died with barely a trace on record of her achievements
Martin Gouterman: the gay man behind the four-orbital model
Abhik Ghosh tells the story of a porphyrin chemist who was a leading figure in Seattle’s gay rights movement of the 1960s
William Knox, the only Black supervisor in the Manhattan Project
The story of the Knox family is one of education overcoming adversity, finds Kit Chapman
Charlotte Williams: ‘Being an academic is a wonderful job’
The award-winning inorganic chemist on early environmental influences and a career spanning industry and academia
Mary Virginia Orna: ‘It felt like I was coming home to something I never knew existed’
The 90-year-old colour chemist on overcoming discrimination and the three loves of her life; Latin, chemistry and Italian opera
Paul Anastas: ‘I’m proudest of being part of a global green chemistry community’
The father of green chemistry on his love of the environment, striving for unattainable perfection and breathing life into an old town library
Super-powered science
Screaming fans excited about your research, the Sharpie on your lanyard for signing autographs – wouldn’t that be nice?
Do chemists die young?
Death notices for chemists suggest perhaps not, despite the hazards found in many labs
My assistance dog gave me the confidence to start a PhD
When anxiety threatens, Phoenix is on hand to help
Chemistry wordoku #078
Time to test your problem solving skills with a sudoku-inspired puzzle
Cryptic chemistry crossword #070
The answers to this cryptic chemistry crossword feature three animals and one mathematician - can you puzzle them out?
Quick chemistry crossword #070
This quick chemistry crossword has actors, physicists, chemists, poets and much more
Cryptic chemistry crossword #069
Can you get all three of the 15-character answers in this cryptic chemistry crossword puzzle?
Opinion
The moral theories behind climate deadlock
Why is it so controversial to do the right thing for the environment?
Opinion
Did AI just win the Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry?
The importance of the expert eye in scientific progress
Opinion
How much science should there be in philosophy?
A debate about metaphysics that’s crucial to how we understand the world
Opinion
Proteins’ shape and function are two sides of the same coin
A new perspective on the relationship between chemistry and biology
Opinion
There’s more to alchemy than its mystical nature
It was crucial to the development of chemistry
Opinion
The nuances of chemical confirmation
Supporting a hypothesis is more difficult than it might seem
Opinion
The rise of techno-science
Appreciating technology’s role in understanding how the world works
Webinar
Onscreen chemistry: The portrayal of chemical science in film and TV
Join us 14 February to discover the real-life chemistry that inspires the art of the silver screen
News
Online archive of Humphry Davy’s notebooks opens to the public
Historic collection is the result of a five-year long citizen science project
Opinion
Celebrating 100 years of the Pauli exclusion principle
How a quantum view of electron states enabled us to understand the stability of matter
Opinion
Wood’s metal and the evolution of fusible alloys
Invented by American dentist Barnabas Wood (1819–1875), whose life is shrouded in mystery
Opinion
Sydney Young and his evaporative fractionator
Developments in distillation find us in good spirits
Opinion
The chemical industry is falling short on supporting women
Unless barriers are broken down, the future of the industry is unsustainable
News
Nobel prize winners far more likely to come from wealthy families highlighting inequality in the sciences
Winners today come, on average, from less wealthy families than when the prize began but there is still a long way to go
Careers
How to have fewer, more effective meetings
Five strategies that can help individuals and institutions manage meetings better
News
Fuel cell scientist loses over a decade of work in suspected arson attack
Crowdfunder launched to help PhD student and owner of clean energy spin-out recover
Careers
Re-establishing my scientist identity in industry
How to embrace a career transition outside of academia
Opinion
Thriving as a Deaf chemistry PhD student
Asma Sheikh talks about growing up, discovering her passion for chemistry and being a teaching assistant
Opinion
Do chemists die young?
Death notices for chemists suggest perhaps not, despite the hazards found in many labs
Careers
How Lisa Alford inspires students and celebrates technicians
She was awarded the Royal Society’s 2024 Hauksbee award in recognition of her extraordinary achievements ‘behind the scenes’
Opinion
Take part in the #ChemistryConversations challenge
Will you share your enthusiasm for chemistry with more non-chemists?
Feature
The new signs bringing greater understanding to organic chemistry
Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developing a sign language lexicon for chemistry concepts that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone
News
Online archive of Humphry Davy’s notebooks opens to the public
Historic collection is the result of a five-year long citizen science project
News
Danish university pauses chemistry demonstrations following accident
‘Genie in a bottle’ demonstration failure hospitalised two, leading to a review of all experiments in the school’s chemistry shows
News
Global ‘census’ of chemistry on YouTube finds thriving ecosystem of indie producers
Chemistry channels are primarily made up of independents with no affiliation with an institution or organisation but a passion to talk science