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As winter begins in the southern hemisphere, Wonderlab looks at some of the many reasons chemists don't like rain

Jean-Marie Lehn and Alain Krief talk about responsibility in sciences in a globalized world and how countries benefit differently from science

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Researchers imitate the silk egg stalks of lacewings and create synthetic biomaterial that has similar tensile strength and elasticity

Book on applications of MOFs and discussing the advantages and limits of the material is reviewed by Jiří Čejka, Czech Republic

Celebrating two exciting and successful years – looking back on what we've achieved and forward to your feedback and a great third year

Efficient preparation of 8 of the 16 isomers of inhibitor candidate deoxynojirimycin could help find new diabetes treatments

Antibody-based immunoassay helps in the search for new chemical reactions by screening thousands of reactions at once

Bowman-James, Bianchi, and Garcìa-España' book, Anion Coordination Chemistry, is reviewed by Philip Gale, UK