A route to oxygenated pyrano[3,2-a]- and pyrano[2,3-a]carbazole alkaloids

We are only able to taste sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami – how do we taste hotness?

Interview with T. Kläusli from AVA Biochem, the first plant which industrially produces the platform chemical 5-HMF from biomass

Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Guess the name of a mineral with the help of an image and some tips

Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table

Bicyclogermacrene as a platform for fast access to a range of different terpenoids

Professor Chi-Huey Wong, Academia Sinica and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA, is this year's winner

Push-pull naphthalene diimide (NDI) motifs form the basis of redox molecular switches

Conjugates of 8-hydroxyquinolines and cyclodextrins have been developed that function both as antioxidants and as metal chelators