When we rap a knife on the shell of a freshly boiled egg we are seldom aware of what a technical marvel we are dealing with

Boiled Eggs: Soft and Hard — Part 1

Frank Behrendt: Renewable Energy – Public Perception and Future Visions
Frank Behrendt, Technische Universität Berlin, talks about the public perception of renewable energy and the sustainable cities of the future

Guess the Chemist (3)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Finding Cancer Cells in Blood
Chip-based method for the rapid, sensitive isolation of rare cells in blood

Diamino Acids Found in Simulated Interstellar Ices
The groups of Uwe Meierhenrich and Cornelia Meinert have used multidimensional gas chromatography to detect building blocks of genes in artificial cosmos

Periodic Tales
Hugh Aldersey-Williams' book, Periodic Tales – A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc, is reviewed by Matthias Driess

A New "Silver Age" for Chemistry in Spain?
Nazario Martín, President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), discusses how to make Spanish science internationally competitive

Synthesis of Boronate Ionic Liquids
Straightforward access to hydridoborate-based ionic liquids (BILs) provided

Ending Energy Poverty: Chemistry's Contribution
Providing sustainable energy to world's the seven billion inhabitants is not a small task, but chemistry has a lot to offer says Javier Garcia Martinez

Black Arsenic: Fact or Fiction?
Synthesis and identification of phases of solid solutions of arsenic and phosphorus demonstrate that black arsenic is metastable