This month’s edition of Periodic Graphics in C&EN comes off of the back of my ending up on tetracyclines for a chest infection a month or so ago. This alerted me to their ability to make the skin of people taking them more sensitive to sunlight. It turns out that there are a number of odd and unexpected side effects of medications people take for a variety of conditions, so this graphic rounds up some of the oddest I came across. View the full graphic on the C&EN site.
Fingerprints left at crime scenes are one of the tools used to incriminate or eliminate suspects. However, they’re not always visible, and investigators will often rely on chemical techniques in order to visualise them. There are a large number of techniques that can be used to do this; here, we take a look at four of the most common.