Jean-Claude Volta, Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse IRC, Villeurbanne, France, passed away last week

Classics in Total Synthesis III by K. C. Nicolaou and Jason Chen, reviewed by Dirk Menche and Sebastian Essig

Progress toward smell television: targeted release of various scents from individually addressable chambers

New study shows that using recycled cardboard in food packaging risks contaminating food with mineral oils

A new, CO2 neutral approach to hydrogen storage is based on simple salts of formic acid and carbonic acid

Professor Frieda Texter, Albright College, Pennsylvania, USA, is the February winner of the Win an iPad campaign

Mendeleev's Periodic Table is, for many, the symbol of chemistry but is the current layout the best one?

An aromatic ring system reminiscent of M.C. Escher’s Penrose stairs has been created by Japanese researchers

How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery? Klaus Roth looks at how ethanol is metabolized

The safety of nanoparticles is under constant examination and recent research suggests their toxicity does not depend on size