Gerhard Hilt talks about what he cooks in the lab and at home, about Noyoris laboratory and very special mushrooms with cannelloni

What’s Cooking in Chemistry: Gerhard Hilt

Chocolate – The Noblest Polymorphism I
Chocolate is a cultural asset of mankind. Klaus Roth proves, once again, only chemistry is able to produce such a celestial pleasure

Mona Lisa’s Secret
The reason behind Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile has been exposed as X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy unveils Da Vinci’s sfumato technique

Purely Nano
Water treatment devices that incorporate nanoscale materials are already available and the need for clean water is pressing

Electronic DNA Sequencing
New, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules has been developed

Trends in Green Energy
Renewables accounted for 60 % of newly installed capacity in Europe and over 50 % of US added capacity in 2009

Frozen Frogs
Accumulation of gylcerol in the cells of tree frogs could shed light on human cryogenics

ChemPubSoc Europe Impact Factors
The results are in – ChemPubSoc Europe's journals all have impact factors to be excited about

Buckyballs Go Extraterrestrial
C60 and C70 have been discovered in space by using the infrared spectrograph on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

Merck & Co Post-Merger Restructuring
Due to the merger, workforce is planned to be reduced by 15 % and plans have been announced to close research and manufacturing sites