What do dinosaurs have to do with iridium? Blending science with poetry, Peter Davern explains in five lines what makes this element unique and exciting

IRIDIUM – What of the Dinosaurs?

Artificial Carbon Fixation Outperforms Nature
Engineered bacterium produces significantly more biomass from formic acid than the natural bacterial strain

Sunday ChemistryViews Quiz (2)
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Room-Temperature Zwitterionic Liquids You Can Actually Stir
Incorporation of a flexible oligoether chain into the spacer between cationic and anionic units reduces viscosity effectively

Evonik to Build Plant for Membranes Used in Green Hydrogen Production
Pilot plant for production of anion exchange membranes in Marl, Germany, to start operation at the end of 2025

Angewandte Chemie 9/2025: Superior Chemistry
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10-Point Action Plan to Simplify EU’s REACH Legislation
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Dysprosium Bis(amide) Complexes as Single-Molecule Magnets
New mononuclear (half-)sandwich dysprosium(III) complexes show magnetic hysteresis

Sustainable Diesel from Rapeseed Oil Esters
Sequential semi-hydrogenation, double-bond isomerization, and metathesis gives fuel for use in modern diesel engines

Curiosity Drives Scientific Observations
Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–1280) was a medieval naturalist and polymath who aimed to fully understand the knowledge of his time and present it clearly in textbooks