Chemistry

videoBiology
Dive deep into an egg cell to see how ageing reboots when a new life begins
2 minutes

essayChemistry
Chemical laws
Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe
Vanessa A Seifert

videoBiology
An elegy for a dying microbe explores what we really mean by ‘death’
9 minutes

videoChemistry
Why do the building blocks of life possess a mysterious symmetry?
12 minutes

videoBiotechnology
The two women behind a world-changing scientific discovery
14 minutes

videoPhysics
Find the building blocks of nature within a single, humble snowflake
4 minutes

essayQuantum theory
We are not empty
The concept of the atomic void is one of the most repeated mistakes in popular science. Molecules are packed with stuff
Mario Barbatti

videoChemistry
A square inch in a Petri dish becomes a grand stage for chemical transformations
4 minutes

videoEcology and environmental sciences
The incredible – and still quite mysterious – way trees trade information via their roots
5 minutes

videoEcology and environmental sciences
How moth larvae carve out cozy, mobile homes inside Mexican jumping beans
4 minutes

videoChemistry
There was nothing quick about how we arrived at the standardised second
6 minutes

videoChemistry
Dramatic close-ups capture something percolating and exploding – but what is it?
5 minutes

videoChemistry
As above, so below – an artist finds the cosmos in a microscopic chemical reaction
6 minutes

ideaChemistry
Could mining gold from waste reduce its great cost?
Wendy Lee Queen & Mirko Bischofberger

videoEvolution
Evolution is not only about competition: the cellular origins of a very big idea
5 minutes

ideaChemistry
Why synthetic chemicals seem more toxic than natural ones
Niranjana Krishnan

videoMedicine
Watching the hidden world of dissolving meds is its own chill pill
2 minutes

ideaPhysics
Cheers! How the physics of fizz contributes to human happiness
Roberto Zenit & Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez

videoEcology and environmental sciences
To really get to know the tallest trees in the world, start with their leaves
3 minutes

ideaPhysics
Plasma, the mysterious (and powerful) fourth phase of matter
Luca Comisso

videoChemistry
The ‘atomic orderliness’ of crystals forming yield resplendent, microscopic landscapes
3 minutes

classicBiography and memoir
Cerium
Carole Angier

videoChemistry
Peek into the chemical nursery where metal crystals are born and bred
3 minutes

videoChemistry
Obsession and electricity: a scientist chases the origins of life in the lab
16 minutes