Emily Carter, Princeton University, USA, discusses her work on using quantum mechanics to solve the World's energy problems

Do all chemists like sushi? Do they have a typical hobby? And if so, what is it? ChemViews finds out ...

Cambridge University, UK, has topped a league table of the world's best universities, with Harvard and MIT, USA, ranked second and third

Ulrike Flad is the granddaughter of the founder of the Dr. Flad Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, and will take over its management from her father

Richard Zare, Stanford University, USA, discusses his editorial on why the West should help China develop its science

Promising anode material for high-power lithium-ion batteries has lithium-ion diffusivity 400 times faster than in Si

Hans-Joachim Freund, director of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany, will be awarded the Karl Ziegler Prize

Discovery of a new binary system that includes a planet made of diamond

Timothy Long, VirginiaTech, USA, talks about new charged polymers for biomedical applications

Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook