Academia & Publishing What’s Ahead for Women in STEM? Women are still heavily underrepresented in all areas of STEM. We want to change this narrative one interview at a time, by asking some of our female authors and editors about the future.
Science & Technology Lise Meitner: “A physicist who never lost her humanity” Against all odds, Austrian-born Lise Meitner devoted her life to a career in nuclear physics. Today we look back on the achievements of a brilliant woman who many believe was once robbed of the Nobel Prize.
Science & Technology The Virtual Switch: Online Conferencing during COVID-19 When confronted with the sudden restrictions by Covid-19 measures, the organizers of the annual LOGIC conference had to make a quick decision: postpone, cancel or drastically adapt the event? They decided for the latter option, and ended up pushing forward their own vision of equity, diversity and inclusion in chemistry.
Science & Technology Lead: A Chameleon-Type Metal Ion. Its Use and Effects on Environment and Health Lead is one of the oldest metals known to man and therefore it deserves special emphasis in the international year of the Periodic Table of the Elements (2019). Its essentiality has been discussed but not demonstrated, yet its toxicity has already been recognized by Greek and Arab scholars.