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For your inspiration: the elements of success
More than 200 guests joined us at the Royal Institution, for a joint event celebrating IYPT and showcasing the diversity of chemistry careers students
19 November 2019
Pay and reward survey report 2019
Career breaks, key skills and the gender pay gap – the results of our 43rd pay and reward survey are in.
12 November 2019
Professor John Bensted BSc PhD DSc CSci CChem CEng SCImem FRSC FIMMM
2 March 1942 – 12 November 2019
12 November 2019
Action plan to eliminate gender bias from research publishing
We are calling on all scientific publishers to join us in transparently reporting gender statistics in a move towards equality in research and academi
05 November 2019
Ceramic periodic table
Teacher Kate Smith used a grant from our IYPT Fund to construct an amazing teaching tool for her school – a giant periodic table make from ceramic til
01 November 2019
A global commitment
We are proud to announce that we have become a signatory of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment.
24 October 2019
Celebrating our member anniversaries
Did you know that some of our members have been in membership with us for more than 70 years? Find out how we celebrate our members' milestones.
18 October 2019
Periodic table brought to life with wool
A science teacher at Cambridge Regional College is in her element after coming up with the perfect yarn to celebrate science – a woolly iconic periodi
15 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
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
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