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World's cleverest young chemist from Manchester
A student from Manchester High School for Girls has proven herself the most outstanding young female chemist in the world at a global competition.
05 August 2010

World's first hydrogen powered racing car, sponsored by RSC
Pictured making its debut at Silverstone: the world's first hydrogen-powered racing car, sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
16 July 2007

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

Worrying levels of antimony found in popular fruit juices
A potentially lethal toxin at concentrations up to 17 times higher than found in previous studies has been detected in popular fruit juices, according
01 March 2010

Wychem – in the beginning
On the 50th anniversary of chemical manufacturer Wychem its founder, Geoffrey Fuller, reflects on its early beginnings and subsequent success.
09 November 2018

Yorkshire pudding must be four inches tall, chemists rule
A Yorkshire pudding isn't a Yorkshire pudding if it is less than four inches tall, says the Royal Society of Chemistry.
12 November 2008

Young Chemical Ambassadors
The Young Chemical Ambassador programme is a project run by the outreach group from the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the Universi
07 January 2022

Young voices encouraged to share sustainability solutions in global essay competition
The contest is open to anyone under 35 and the best entries will be published in one of our new journals.
03 February 2023

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