This year marks the 350th anniversary of the publication of Boyle’s law which describes how the pressure and volume of a gas are related

Boyle’s Law: 350th Anniversary

Women in Chemistry — IYC Interview Series
ChemistryViews introduces interesting women throughout the International Year of Chemistry

A. Teasdale on Genotoxic Impurities in Drugs
Andrew Teasdale, AstraZeneca, talks about his book on genotoxic impurities and what constitutes an acceptable drug risk

Angewandte Author Profiles January
Hansjörg Grützmacher, Aiwen Lei, Nicolai Cramer, and Herbert Mayr are interviewed this month

Fluorescence-Enhanced Detection of Nucleic Acids
Zeolitic imidazolate framework nanoparticles; very effective fluorescent sensing platform for detection of nucleic acid sequences

New IUPAC President
Professor Kazuyuki Tatsumi, Nagoya University, Japan, takes over the role of President of IUPAC

Better Biomass
Energy and cost of torrefied biomass analyzed

Citations And Ethics
Jan Reedijk discusses how citation metrics are pushing editors, referees, and authors into strategic and sometimes unethical behavior

Cholesterol Sludge
Statistical mechanics provids new insights into behavior of cholesterol/phospholipid mixtures in cell membranes

Design Effective Figures for Scientific Publications
A brief guide to designing effective figures for the scientific paper created by University of Washington scientists