Ulrike Flad is the granddaughter of the founder of the Dr. Flad Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, and will take over its management from her father

Richard Zare, Stanford University, USA, discusses his editorial on why the West should help China develop its science

Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook

Timothy Long, VirginiaTech, USA, talks about new charged polymers for biomedical applications

Laurence A. Nafie, Syracuse University, USA, talks about his book "Vibrational Optical Activity: Principles and Applications"

Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany

The work is expected to lead to innovative methods for real-time detection of numerous threats from biological aerosol exposures

The humble zebrafish can be used to test the safety of transition metal oxide nanoparticles according to an international team

Weifeng Ding, Scientific Editor Chinese Journal of Chemistry, discusses the differences between the Shanghai and Weinheim editorial offices

Algorithm can spot the earliest biochemical changes that are a precursor to cervical cancer by untangling near-infrared Raman spectra