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Women in medical waiting room

Feature

Fixing medicine’s gender gap

For centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity

Women shopping for period products

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How safe and sustainable are period products?

Millions of people around the world use period products every month. Bárbara Pinho finds out what their environmental footprint is and whether they carry chemicals harmful to human health

Sun rising over refinery

Feature

How decarbonisation will help the UK’s last refineries survive

Carbon capture and low-carbon hydrogen are central to any possibility of supplying liquid fuels compatible with net zero, reports Andy Extance

Waves

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What are the prospects for making green hydrogen straight from seawater?

Competing with better-established desalination coupled with electrolysis, direct seawater splitting technologies are targeting niches

Étienne François Geoffroy and his table of affinities

Opinion

Symbols and tables in chemistry

Looking beyond today’s periodic table

Women climbing different ladders

Nurturing socioeconomic inclusion for a brighter tomorrow

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Understanding why individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are underrepresented in the chemical sciences

Purple dye in dress

Way’s electric light and flashes of brilliance

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The continuing adventures of John Thomas Way under the mercury-powered spotlight

Indian cobra

Sinister snakebites

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Accidental death, or a murder carried out with venom?

Colourful neuron

Non-hallucinogenic psychedelics

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Chemical insights and advances are contributing to a new therapeutic avenue for mental health conditions 

Safety is everyone’s responsibility

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Maintaining culture and investment is key, especially in the absence of incidents

Letters: June 2025

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Readers discuss chemical emergencies, honey adulturation, and more

Normalising huge substrate scopes worsens wellbeing

By

And holds up the pace of scientific progress

Handing handedness to amino acids

By

A new theory proposes how chiral amplification could happen

Women climbing different ladders

Opinion

Nurturing socioeconomic inclusion for a brighter tomorrow

Understanding why individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are underrepresented in the chemical sciences

Business

RNA as a replacement for chemical pesticides

Argentinian start-up Apolo Biotech is teaching plants to fight infections

Research

Ancient ‘Egyptian Blue’ pigment recipes recreated

Work could aid conservation of Egyptian artefacts

Opinion

Way’s electric light and flashes of brilliance

The continuing adventures of John Thomas Way under the mercury-powered spotlight

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