How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery?

Chemistry of a Hangover — Alcohol and its Consequences Part 3

Extra Sensory Detection
Unprecedented sensitivities for Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)-based sensors using hemin/G-quadruplexes and Au nanoparticles

Wonderlab Comic — Die Leiden der Jungen Richpunzel
Richpunzel poors her lab-based sorrows out to her diary in the latest Wonderlab installment

Online Video Competition
The Hong Kong Education City Limited has initiated an International Year of Chemistry 2011 (HK) Online Video Competition

RIKEN Beijing Representative Office
New RIKEN Representative Office opened in Beijing, China, to contribute towards developing Asian solutions to global issues like energy, environment, food

A Breakthrough in Selective Synthesis
Palladium catalyst selectively activates C–H bonds in an unactivated CH2 group in coupling reaction leading to indolines

Christian Reichardt and Solvent Effects in Organic Chemistry
Christian Reichardt, Marburg, Germany, discusses the fourth edition of his highly successful book

How Wallabies Can Help Cows Produce Less Methane
Isolation and identification of the unique gut bacteria of the Tammer wallaby could help reduce methane emissions from livestock

Mechanism of Glycosylation
Mechanism of an essential process in cells of higher organisms proposed from newly determined crystal structure of enzyme

ChemSusChem Appoints New Editor-in-Chief
Guido Kemeling named as Editor-in-Chief of ChemSusChem