UK and Swiss research teams reveal two techniques proven to identify dissolved cocaine in bottles of wine or rum from outside the bottles

Broadband dielectric spectroscopy monitors tautomerism in drugs to discover their shelf-life

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The 2010 literary prize is awarded to Doris Fischer-Henningsen, Editor-in-Chief of Chemie in Unserer Zeit

New estimates of the amount of oil released from Deepwater Horizon are published in the first peer-reviewed study

Twenty years after its implementation, the Montreal Protocol proves effective against ozone depletion

A new method that allows absolute temperature mapping with unmatched accuracy shows promise for biomedical applications

Highly sensitive nanosensor array allows detection of TNT down to 0.1 part per trillion

Observation of single ions passing through a nanotube channel could herald more sensitive detectors or new desalination systems

Cocoa butter can crystallize into six forms, but only one has the noble surface sheen, the crisp hardness, and melts pleasantly in the mouth