The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

A new model suggests how melanopsin, a non-visual pigment in the eye, responds to blue light and controls our body clock 

What almost sounds like a weird solution memory effect, homeopathy almost, is important for reproducibility of experiments and controlling parameters

An unprecedented alkaloid containing both epsilon-lactam and delta-lactone rings has been characterized for its medicinal potential

Making functionalized bridged bicycles in natural product synthesis just got easier thanks to a new carbene cascade reaction

Nanosheets of boron carbon nitride have large capacity for lithium ions and could be used as "green" electrodes in rechargeable batteries

A new process for making ammonia could reduce the overall energy costs in the manufacture of this crucial chemical

Compound modeled on active site of oxidizing enzymes could underpin new catalysts for the conversion of methane

Addition of zwitterions to ionic liquids allows them to be loaded up with water allowing dissolution of biological molecules without degradation

Chemometrics allows analysts to unravel data from laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy the detection of explosive residues

Nanocapsules containing penicillin acylase can make their own antibiotic and deliver it to a specific target site