William M. Burton developed the first commercially successful cracking process for crude oil

Selected articles show that macromolecular crystallography is very much alive and still a vibrant and evolving discipline

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals for November 2014

Rapid quantification of polar compounds in edible, thermo-oxidized oils by HPTLC densitometry

Scientists finally identify the chemical components of the bed bug aggregation pheromone - premiss to develop commercial traps

A handheld smartphone-based fluorescence microscopy platform can effectively image and size single DNA molecules

Relative amounts of light absorbing particles deposited to surfaces used to estimate surface color changes

Most important achievements of crystallographers that led to major advances in understanding of structure and function of biological macromolecules

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

More plastic particles than thought spread throughout the world’s oceans easier than thought