What is an ergot-infested grain kernel? Part 2 looks at the life-cycle of the fungus, how it contributed to the Salem witch trials, and a self test

Terahertz scanners will soon tell restorators quickly and completely non-destructively what is happening with an object of art

Native cellulose can be dispersed as nanofibers in organic solvents by ball milling with esterification agents

Tips for a better abstract: how to explain your project in the written equivalent of twenty seconds

Hans Wolfgang Spiess has retired from his role as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

Sarah E. Reisman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, and Corey R. J. Stephenson, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, awarded

Ellen Swallow Richards was a pioneering chemist, first woman to graduate from MIT, and leading advocate of women’s education

Several hundred novel proteins, many of which surprisingly small, were identified in herpesvirus

Combining conducting polymers with the structural properties of hydrogels could give scaffolds that promote nerve regeneration

Jean’ne M. Shreeve, Liming Zhang, Zhenyang Lin, Claudio Palomo, and Jaephil Cho were interviewed this month