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WorldSkills success for first chemist to compete
Tonicha Roberts – the first person without a degree to become a Reporting Scientist at testing laboratories company Eurofins – has brought home a meda
10 October 2019
Unusual lanthanide complex
ChemSciPick (VIDEO) – A team of scientists have produced an unusual bent lanthanide complex, which could one day have applications in the field of dat
10 October 2019
Yuri Oganessian visits Royal Society of Chemistry
Yuri Oganessian, the discoverer of many chemical elements, and after whom the last element in the periodic table is named, came to our London HQ and l
07 October 2019
Upholding scientific values
At the start of his term as Chair of the Professional Standards Board, Andy Rudge speaks to us about what professional standards means to him, and the
03 October 2019
Workshops inspire students with chemistry
To celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table, not-for-profit organisation STEMworks developed a brand new workshop where students could d
01 October 2019
Lesson planning just got a whole lot easier
We’ve launched our new education website that brings together all our support for chemistry teaching in one place.
27 September 2019
A taste for chemistry
Over 90 Year 9 and 10 students from 16 schools in London, Kent and Hertfordshire attended the Royal Society of Chemistry sponsored university taster d
26 September 2019
Manipulating enzymes using molecular scaffolding
Our ChemSci Pick of the Week describes a new way to use “molecular scaffolding” to manipulate enzymatic reactions, which could be used for efficient i
25 September 2019
Visualising chemical reactions
ChemSci Pick of the Week – A new study from Cardiff and Bristol universities makes it possible to visualise chemical reactions involving small molecul
18 September 2019
Paying tribute to Chris Dobson
We are sad to have learned of the death of Professor Sir Chris Dobson, Master of St John's College in Cambridge and long-standing friend and colleague
10 September 2019
All about that base
Our ChemSci pick of the week introduces the most powerful class of non-ionic carbon “superbases” to date, which could offer new reaction pathways.
04 September 2019
Professor Stanley Greenfield CChem FRSC
25 March 1920 – 4 September 2019
04 September 2019