Science is an increasingly global endeavour but doctoral education continues to take place largely within a single institution

G. Desiraju, India, talks about inspiring scientists, future hopes, the situation in India, and the International Year of Crystallography

Switchable-hydrophilicity solvents (SHSs) are potenial alternatives to the commonly used volatile organic solvents (VOCs)

100 years ago, Fritz Ullmann started to discuss topics related to industrial chemistry: state-of-the art of the 1910s

It took hundred of years and a long sequence of small advantages and missed opportunities to discover the importance of vitamin C

The President of the Swiss Chemical Society talks about their program of reform and the fascination of discovery

Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table

Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Uwe Freiherr von Lukas, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Rostock, talks about Germany's first science soap

Nicolai Cramer, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, and Daniel Rauh, Technische Universität, Dortmund, Germany, awarded