In this month's Cell Podcast, we learn how a lucky find in an obscure dental journal inspired the development of ibuprofen, with the drug’s discoverer Stewart Adams (0:00), why we’re still struggling to combat malaria, with Kip Guy (9:29), and how evolution finds multiple routes to the same phenotype, with Chris Marx (18:05). Plus, sample a selection of the hottest new papers from Cell Press (24:44).