European Commission approves BASF’s acquisition of Cognis

BASF to acquire CRI/Criterion’s global styrene catalysts business

Method for making Au nanoparticles for imaging cancer is environmentally and biologically benign as it uses cinnamon

Ada Yonath on why it’s better to be a science star than a pop star, her work, and science in small countries

Ei-ichi Negishi reports a more stereoselective route to trisubstituted alkenes from propyne

Red macroalgae could be a new source for renewable chemicals and biofuels thanks to one-step process

Süd-Chemie AG and Technische Universität München, Germany, reach agreement on strategic alliance

EUR 1.9 million awarded to Mikhail Eremets, Max-Plank Institute for Chemistry, for the study of metallic hydrogen

The surfaces of nanoscopic diamonds have been chemically modified by a Diels-Alder reaction

Cooperative activation of CO2 achieved with ammonium betaine-based catalyst under halogen- and solvent-free conditions