Water scarcity is driven by increasing freshwater consumption and depletion of usable freshwater resources

Water Crisis

Smart Glasses: Tool or Toy? – Part 2
Useful science apps for smart glasses and challenges of their use in the lab

Guess the Chemist (114)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Exploring the Microbiome on the International Space Station (ISS)
Kasthuri Venkateswaran and Nitin Kumar Singh on their search for extremophiles and how bacteria support plant growth

Renewable Energy Is Growing – But Not Fast Enough
2020 data show that clean power generation is not yet being built fast enough to keep pace with the rising electricity demand

The New EU Chemicals Strategy
Expert discussions at the Helsinki Chemicals Forum included the Green Deal and the EU Chemicals Strategy

A Hairpin to Fight Cancer
Bicyclic protein mimetics inhibit the oncogene β-catenin

Hamsterkauf
An Austrian stamp is printed on real toilet paper using an elaborate process

Anti-Cancer Proteins Protected by Nanobrushes
Inserting active agents into tumor cells using antibodies

150th Birthday: Victor Grignard
French chemist known for Grignard reagents and the C–C bond-forming Grignard reaction