Stefan Berger, University of Leipzig, Germany, author of Classics in Spectroscopy, celebrates his 65th birthday

The photocatalytic activity of titania moves from UV to visible light if trapped within carbon nanotubes, opening up new applications

Asymmetric aminocatalysis opens the Diels—Alder reaction to a new class of dienes

Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews, Scotland, has received the Arfvedson Schlenk Prize for his work on lithium chemistry

Cambridge University, UK, has topped a league table of the world's best universities, with Harvard and MIT, USA, ranked second and third

Making complexes that absorb light and split water can be as difficult as making porridge for Goldilocks as steric and electronic factors clash

Simple and apparently benign molecule cleaves strong bonds and opens the way for organocatalytic substrate activation

Andreas Pfaltz, University of Basel, Switzerland, is the first Swiss scientist to give the Heilbronner Hückel Lecture

Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, receives GDCh prize for processes that conserve resources

Study of the structure–activity relationship of steroid sulfatase inhibitors explains why Irosustat is the best in its class