Like office workers escaping from the perceived confines of cubicles, today’s scientists have been freed from the trappings of the typical lab bench. Advances in technology allowing for increased ...

In its second annual photo contest, C&EN asked scientists to send in photos of beautiful things that showed up on their lab benches. They submitted stunning images of crystals, snapshots of ...

Ask non-scientists to picture a laboratory, and the odds are that they will imagine the kind of space that a contemporary chemist would work in, complete with lab bench, fume cupboard, sink and ...