R&D plant at Sandwich, UK, will close with the loss of 2,400 jobs

Pfizer Announce R&D Cuts

Nanoparticles as H2-Evolution Catalysts
Efficient generation of H2 with Pt nanoparticles depends on their size, shape and the rate of Pt–H bond formation

UV-Transparent Coating for Image Sensors
Image sensors in cell phones are partially color-blind so not suitable for spectroscopy – this may change with new transparent coating

Large Hadron Collider Run Extended
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will continue to collect data at 3.5 TeV until the end of 2012

Chemoenzymatic Synthesis: Recent Developments
Mimicking nature is leading to some creative and green ways to synthesize organic substrates

New Type of Metallomacrocycles
Tetrametallic azamacrocycles: a new type of metallomacrocycles with pendant metal fragments

Bilayer Organic Transistor
New transistor for plastic electronics exhibits the best of both worlds: high stability and good conduction

Detecting Microorganisms
New method for separation of microorganisms uses microscale electrokinetic technique

A Drug Pipeline Going Dry
The number of effective anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs continues to dwindle; can we find new agents for treating drug-resistant TB?

New Tool for Biomarker Verification
Gold electrode-based biochip has been shown to sequentially capture and focus antigens for immunoaffinity mass spectrometry testing