Chemistry in its element

Kat Arney wraps herself around the tree sap that saved transatlantic telecommunications

29 Mar 20185min

A giant marine toxin with a total synthesis story to tell

9 Mar 20187min

Colourful crustaceans and the story of a ubiquitous biological pigment

2 Mar 20185min

Kat Arney investigates the biological pigment that links sun tanning, squid ink and browning bananas

21 Feb 20186min

We speak to Yuri Oganessian about the element that bears his name

15 Feb 20186min

Three Tennessee institutions contributed to the discovery of element 117, now fittingly named tennessine

14 Feb 20186min

Meet the Mayor of Livermore, California, and discover how his city has been immortalised on the periodic table

13 Feb 20185min

The US-Russian collaborative superheavy element 'factory' strikes again, but only 100 atoms of element 115 have ever been observed

12 Feb 20185min