Klaus Roth considers the poison tetrodotoxin from the fugu's perspective

All 92 naturally occurring elements were identified in Europe while the artificial elements were mostly discovered in the USA

Two neighboring hydroxy groups on a benzene ring with an amino group just around the corner. Nothing too complicated really. Or is it?

Porous form of magnesium borohydride can store hydrogen in two ways: chemically bound and physically adsorbed

Mild but very efficient: new catalytic process extracts hydrogen from bioalcohols

A pharmacologically active antagonist of the two-pore-domain potassium ion channel could help treat depression

Make your predictions for the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry here

Rudolf Mössbauer, Nobel Prize winner best known for the effect that is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy, has passed away

DNA is not the only way to differentiate species as modified tRNA bases are shown to be species-specific

Book looking at inorganic chemistry strategies for a warming world by R. H. Crabtree, is reviewed by Sebastiano Campagna