How do you form a spin-off company from your research? J. García-Martínez talks about his experiences and how he finds time for his many roles

With stiff competition for Ph.D. positions, mediocre student Jin-Jo is advised by his Wonderlab colleagues to get his application in early

Horst Feldmann, Germany, discusses the past and future of yeast research to explain why this mircoorganism is so important

With the world's popluation predicted to grow to 8.2 billion by 2030, what are the consequences for the economy and chemical industry?

Native cellulose can be dispersed as nanofibers in organic solvents by ball milling with esterification agents

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Joachim Gross, Germany, awarded DECHEMA Prize for his work on the thermodynamics of mixtures

Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel after an accident at a nitroglycerin factory killed his brother; answer to Guess the Chemist (11)

Israel’s Sorek desalination plant scheduled to be 50 % operational by the beginning of 2013

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for October 2012