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

Iron veins running through grains of magnesium allow fast and reversible uptake of enough H2 to power a car

Metal–organic framework that selectively binds oxygen could separate oxygen from air in a less energy-intensive way

A new map of Antarctica illustrates for the first time how ice moves across the continent

Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany

The work is expected to lead to innovative methods for real-time detection of numerous threats from biological aerosol exposures

The nominees for the German Future Prize of the Federal President for Technology and Innovation have been announced

The large uptake of both CO2 and CH4 by BC2N betters the performance of graphenes and activated charcoal

Record power conversion efficiency for polymer-based solar cells achieved by the incorporation of vertically oriented nanorods

Previously unnoticed pathway in the nitrogen cycle shows that nitrogen-containing soil helps remove pollutants from the air