Life span of cloud-forming sulfate particles in the air is shorter than assumed due to a reaction pathway catalysed by mineral dust within clouds

Sulfate Aerosols Cool Climate Less Than Assumed

New Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Gels
Photoresponsive supramolecular gels that incorporate an azobenzene unit into peptide side chains are reported

Egypt Failed to Spend Research Budget
Egyptian annual research budget cut as ministry of scientific research only spent 18 % of its annual budget

Physical Chemistry Cartoon Competition – Closed
Student competition of the Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

Health Warnings for Shampoos?
Personal care products carry no hazardous symbols as they are explicitly excluded from the regulation for labeling of chemicals

Hope for Hepatitis Drug
A straightforward synthesis of an antiviral drug, entecavir, to treat hepatitis B has industrial scale-up potential

Reform to US Toxic Substances Control Act
Bipartisan bill introduced to evaluate and label all commercially used chemicals based on their potential health and environmental risks

Stronger Metals through Narrow Grain Distribution
Narrowing the distribution of grain sizes in nickel-titanium thin films could make them stronger

New Route to Anticancer Agent Quinocarcin
Synthesis of quinocarcin through a convergent strategy based on Sonogashira coupling and gold(I)-catalyzed hydroamination

Better Photocatalytic Properties for Semiconductor
A ZnO/TiO2 heterojunction semiconductor photocatalyst in which two reactive TiO2 {001} facets are untouched by the ZnO