Chemical scaffolds guide fluorescing bacteria into precisely defined three-dimensional spiral patterns

Professor Zuriati Zakaria, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), is the first Malay woman from Malaysia to receive a PhD in chemistry

The nightmarish effects of strychnine are nothing compared to its systematic name, which hints at how difficult it is to make

Developing nations drive growth at adoption rates exceeding industrialized countries

Gold microcapsules with air-filled cavities act as contrast agent for ultrasound and photothermically activated drug for cancer

Sophie and friends discover the joys and pitfalls of litmus paper

Rotational transitions induced in molecules on a chip could have important applications in quantum computing

How the simplest molecule – H2 – governed the cosmological development of our universe

Report from the 10th Winter Conference on Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry, January 2011, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA

European Women in Chemistry edited by Jan Apotheker and Livia Simon Sarkadi, reviewed by Francesco De Angelis, University of l’Aquila, Italy