Our evolution continues

Here at C&EN we strive to chronicle changes in the chemical realm and its impact on our world, as well as the changes that this world has wrought upon the realm of chemistry. Indeed, movement and reaction are fundamental to understanding chemistry. It is inevitable that C&EN’s journalistic enterprise will evolve too. But even as we evolve, the principles laid out in the magazine’s final editorial of 1971 still apply: to share developments in the chemical world and their connection to the world at large. And, of course, to cover the business of the American Chemical Society as one of the largest science societies in the world. Through any change, we retain a strong sense of who we are, delivering a balance between applause and disapproval where required, accountable to our audience but never speaking for it. Just as described in that editorial. Journalists have been very concerned with a