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The book 'The Encyclopedia of STEM Words' resting on a bed of dark brown bark chips. The cover is dark blue and features a variety of cartoon-y graphics including a tree, the Earth, an atom, a cloud and a Bunsen burner.

An Encyclopedia of Great Ideas: Talking STEM with Jenny Jacoby

The world of science, technology, engineering and maths is full of exciting ideas you may not have come across before. In The Encyclopedia of STEM Words, author Jenny Jacoby shares 100 of her favourites.

A collage of three photos: a whale shark's spotted back as it swims near the surface, a cute quoll, a swimmer snorkelling over a reef

Sunscreen Chemicals, Flesh-eating Quolls and Whale Shark Feasts: Journal science snippets

We're serving up science from the pages of Australian Journal of Chemistry, Australian Mammalogy and Pacific Conservation Biology.

A row of glasses filled with coloured water, arranged in the colours of the rainbow.

Kitchen Science Experiment: Create a density rainbow

Are you feeling hungry for some science? In these edited extracts from The Curious World of Kitchen Science series, try your hand at creating a density rainbow, and learn some other cool facts from the worlds of physics, biology and maths!

Kevin Francesconi in a room onboard the RV Knorr sampling microalgae during a scientific cruise from Woods Hole to Bermuda

A Retrospective on the Environmental Chemistry journal with Kevin Francesconi

In 2020, Professor Kevin Francesconi is stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Chemistry. We spoke to him about his long history with the journal and what he hopes for its future.

Australian Journal of Chemistry cover on abstract background with chemical equations

70 Years of Australian Journal of Chemistry: a retrospective

To celebrate seven decades of publication, we reflect on the history of Australian Journal of Chemistry and share some of the most influential research from its pages.