Discovery that algae can produce the industrial contaminant selenocyanate could have implications for water monitoring

Solar cells could be more affordable and efficient if made with new method that employs an ultrafast pulsing laser

New diagnostic test enables accurate and rapid assessment of the quality of pluripotent stem cell lines

Using proteins as a carbon source for energy production and biorefining could be possible with engineered microbial cells

The ambient fixation of carbon dioxide can be achieved by converting it to cyclic carbonates with a ZnIIsalphen catalyst

Computers could be about to get smaller with the first example of spin and molecular electronics in a single molecule

Understanding how taste cells respond to sugar could eventually lead to ways to treat overconsumption and perhaps obesity

Wiley author wins 2010 PROSE award for chemistry and physics

For international book programme Wiley-VCH offers: Publisher Physics; Commissioning Editor Materials Science; Trainee Materials Science/Physics/Chemistry

Hot alcoholic beverages such as red wine, sake and shochu can induce superconductivity in iron-based compounds