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

Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry 2013

Successful Teamwork
Unusual fungal metabolites with antitumor activity discovered by crowdsourcing

The Chemistry of Breaking Bad
The multi-award-winning TV series is demanding, exciting, amusing, often shocking, and made with great attention to chemistry details

Chemical Poems: Hydrogen
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table

Science Never Fails!
The Journal of Unsolved Questions, founded by Ph.D. students, encourages scientists to share their negative results

Anything C Can Do, Can BN Do Better?
With state-of-the-art theoretical calculations a tetragonal phase of BN which is dynamically stable and metallic has been proposed

Career: As a Chemist in Industry
Dr. Florencio Zaragoza, Lonza AG, Visp, Switzerland, talks about his experiences in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry

After Acceptance: How to Turn Your Research into Cover Art
The hard work is finally complete: Your manuscript is accepted and it’s time to inject a little fun by making a cover picture for your chosen journal

Guess the Chemist (24)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Behind the Science: Phthalocyanine-based Nanocages
Dr. Kate Lawrence talks to Professor Sun about his article on phthalocyanine (Pc)-based nanocages