Do herbal remedies like St. John's wort live up to their claims or are they a source of additional complications?

Herbal Remediation or Complication?

Balloon Competition of the Young Chemists Forum
IYC 2011 Balloon Competition is organized by the JungChemikerForum (Young Chemists Forum; JCF) of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker

Introducing the Young Chemists Forum
The Young Chemists Forum (JCF) of the GDCh represents nearly one-fifth of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

Polymerization-Powered Microspiders
Polymerization reaction drives micromotor that weaves a web and can be directed towards specific targets

Wolfram Koch on the GDCh’s Top Event
Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany

Interview with Weifeng Ding
Weifeng Ding, Scientific Editor Chinese Journal of Chemistry, discusses the differences between the Shanghai and Weinheim editorial offices

New IChemE President — Interview with Sir William Wakeham
Sir William talks about his new position, IChemE, and the very flexible field of chemical engineering

New Type of Rechargeable Battery
Rechargeable batteries in cars could give way to microporous polymer that is an unusually powerful supercapacitor

Pietro Biginelli: The Man Behind the Reaction
The Biginelli dihydropyrimidine synthesis is a very important and old multicomponent reaction—so why has its creator been forgotten?

Desalination in the Rain: The 2011 TUM DeSal Challenge
The DeSal Challenge at the Technical University Munich provided new ideas for desalination and much fresh water despite the rain