Professor Walter Kohn, 1998 Chemistry Nobel laureate, passed away

Walter Kohn (1923 – 2016)

Beyond the Rainbow Colors
Semiconducting ternary nanocrystals expand the range of accessible light energy of solar cells

Monitoring Breathing
Paper-based electrical sensor to monitor respiration rate developed

What is a Yoctosecond?
How many yoctoseconds are in a second?

Updated Atomic Weights: Time to Review Our Table
New and more accurate measurements of isotopic abundances change atomic weights

Chemotherapy without Drugs
Cancer cell calcification can inhibit cell growth and metastasis

The Saccharin Saga – Part 6
Aspartame – a sweet dipeptide ester

The Colors of Life
The colors of the living world are produced by a wide variety of mechanisms

Guess the Chemist (52)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Behind the Science: Changing the Selectivity of Biocatalysts
Structure-guided switch in the regioselectivity of a tryptophan halogenase enzyme