Coolant Conjecture

Coolant Conjecture

Take care when choosing an engine coolant - they're not all the same, warns Mike Freche from BASF.

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes

The glycoalkaloid tomatine has been shown to inhibit human cancer cells in vitro but its concentration in tomatoes depends on the ripeness.

Watery No-Man's Land

Watery No-Man's Land

Water exists in 15 distinct phases, now research shows that at 180 K ice and liquid can coexist after water crystallizes.

Hot Spots

Hot Spots

Quantum dots employed to increase solar cell efficiency from the current limit of 30 % to more than 60 %.

Pharaoh Time

Pharaoh Time

Accurate chronology of the kings of ancient Egypt mapped using a radiocarbon analysis of short-lived plant remains from the region.

Let's Have a Break

Let's Have a Break

An interesting redox reaction gives a metallacarborane species at RT by C-C bond breakage of a highly stable aromatic arene.