Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, think tank will strategize on environmentally sound policies on oil, gas, coal

A new lab-on-a-chip sensor array – little bigger than a business card can – detect toxic industrial chemicals at low cost and low concentrations

The 11 Silver Medal winners from 1999 to 2009 represent the ‘crème de la crème’ of modern Japanese organic chemistry

Fingerprints that have been washed off metal surfaces can now be retrieved

The EuCheMS elected Ulrich Schubert, Vienna University of Technology, member of the Austrian chemical society, as their new president

Native-sized spider silk protein successfully expressed for the first time in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli

New route to gold-based catalyst removes need for moisture and light sensitive silver salts

Mechanism of the radical-initiated oxidation of 1,3-dioxane helps explain the role of ethers in the atmosphere

A 21-step synthesis of (−)-nakadomarin A from the simple starting material D-pyroglutamic acid has been achieved

Helmut Werner, Leroy Cronin, Otto Wolfbeis, and Takuzo Aida, are interviewed this month