European Women in Chemistry edited by Jan Apotheker and Livia Simon Sarkadi, reviewed by Francesco De Angelis, University of l’Aquila, Italy

Many plants contain dyes that change color depending on the pH value, for example, red cabbage. But what other colors are even better?

A scorpion-like fluorescent triazole allows sensitive detection of copper and mercury in sea samples from Sydney Harbour

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Vincenzo Barone, the new president of the Società Chimica Italiana (SCI), talks about the SCI, IYC 2011, politics, young chemists

Photocatalytic water splitting system that mimics the two-step process of photosynthesis reported

A new comic series by Sophie Lin: It's a bad day for glassware in Sophie's lab as they play Survivor ...

A self-cleaning membrane reactor for industrial wastewater treatment decomposes organic foulants and stops pores from getting blocked

Professor Hee Yoon Lee, KAIST, Korea, is the December winner of the campaign: Register for ChemViews Newsletter & Win an iPad

Europe-wide survey among employers shows that for graduate recruitment soft skills are as valued as sector-specific and computer skills