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

Vitamin C Deficiency

E. Peter Kündig: Chemistry in Switzerland
The President of the Swiss Chemical Society talks about their program of reform and the fascination of discovery

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

Guess the Chemist (25)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

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

Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry 2013
Nicolai Cramer, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, and Daniel Rauh, Technische Universität, Dortmund, Germany, awarded

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