A milestone year | Opinion

2024 is set to be a special year for Chemistry World because it’s 20 years since we published our first issue. A lot has happened since. In 2004 there was no graphene, no Crispr, no financial crisis, no bitcoin, no President Obama, no President Trump, no Brexit, no Covid, no iPhone, no Tesla, nothing formerly known as Twitter, no ChatGPT. China had not yet become an economic and scientific superpower, and an online directory for students at Harvard was about to launch called ‘TheFaceBook’.

So throughout this year, we’ll be taking a look back at 2004 to see how much things have…