1. What made you want to be a chemist? The serious but predictable answer is a couple of really good science teachers, so thanks should go to the inspirational Andrew Munro and Jeremy Bushrod. The fun answer is John Nettles.......

So, the conference is over, but the work of a Nature Chemistry editor isn?t. As you might have heard on the podcast, we?re combining our conference visits with trips to nearby chemistry departments. So the day after we?d wrapped up......

It's time for another batch of research highlights. First up, fresh back from his trip to Korea, Steve writes about a counterintuitive approach to creating stereocentres: by destroying them first! Second, the story of greedy metal complexes. Neil tackles the......

1. What made you want to be a chemist? As a child I remember being given a chemistry set and spending many hours in the family greenhouse mixing different coloured liquids and causing things to heat and sometimes burn (much......

This is one of the best chemistry videos, nay one of the best videos, full stop, I've ever seen. The video accompanies a paper (abstract here, subscription needed for full paper) in Organic Letters about a photochromic molecule (one that......