2,5-Dimethylfuran can be used to monitor environmental tobacco smoke levels and detect second-hand smoke

Smoke Detection Improved

Easier Tubulysins: Delivered!
Delivery of tubulysin analogues using dendrimer conjugation technology promises efficacy without toxicity

Store the Sun's Heat
Storing thermal energy in chemical could lead to advances in storage and portability

Chemical Frustration Opens Synthetic Routes
Frustration can lead to ring-opening reaction yielding phosphonium borate products with potential as metal-free catalysts

Algae Powered Gunboat
US Navy completes successfully testing of river-based command boat run on alternative fuels

Solvent-Free Nopinone Synthesis
Solvent-free ball milling conditions prove superior to ozonolysis in the synthesis of nopinone from β-pinene

Industrial-scale CO2 'Storage' Plant
First industrial-scale plant for CO2 'storage' by algae

Metal–Organic Wires
New series of metallosupramolecular functional complexes are investigated as electroswitchable magnetic wires

Alloy Surfaces
Atomic-scale structure, composition, and catalytic properties of Pd–Au and Pd–Cu bimetallic alloys have been investigated

Soft Drink Supports Anti-cancer Drug
Experiments with an artificial stomach suggest that Sprite could improve the effectiveness of an oral anticancer drug