Longest conjugated polyenic compounds made by a metathesis reaction could be used as food colorants with added health benefits

New method to accurately measure the Boltzmann constant brings the redefinition of the Kelvin a step closer

Nanoantenna is shown to scatter red and blue light in opposite directions despite being smaller than the wavelength of light

Supramolecular capsules that control the coordination geometry of a metal could provide new routes to control the reactivity of catalysts

Jules Hoffmann, University of Strasbourg, a pioneer in insect immunity, is awarded the highest scientific distinction in France

Men's health products labeled as "potency" pills illegally laced with unlicenced analogs of the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil

Rainer Metternich to Head Roche's Small Molecules Research Group, Basel, Switzerland

Yuan Lee and Andrew Yang, Taiwan, outline a path to putting humanity on sustainable footing in their Angewandte Chemie Editorial

Results for Friday 23 September of predictions for the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

M. Wyatt, National Mass Spectrometry Service Centre, UK, looks at why MALDI-TOFMS analysis of organometallic complexes is so uncommon