Wastewater treatment plants may not be able to provide sufficient treatment of water used in fracking process

Chemical Analysis of Shale Wastewater

Blocking Hypoxia Inducible Factors Allosterically
US scientists have developed a small molecule which antagonizes the transcriptional factor HIF-2 by inducing allosteric changes

An Olive Branch for Lignin: Pass the Hydrogen
The microwave-assisted depolymerization of lignin to bio-oil from olive tree waste is achieved in hydrogen-donating solvents

Biochemical Methane Production
Cryo-electron microscopy images reveal the structure of a hydrogenase used by archaebacteria to split hydrogen to produce methane

New Multifunctional Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Material
First hydrophilic cucurbit[7]-pseudorotaxane-monolayer-protected gold nanorod hybrid reported

Sensing Organic Pollutants
Competitive host–guest interactions used in a new sensor for organic pollutants

A Dangerous Transfer of Methyl Groups
Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase promotes tumorigenesis by regulating the methylation potential of cancer cells

Money for Open-Access Publishing
How, as a chemist, can I find funding for open-access publishing?

Green Ibuprofen
Safer solvents can be used in the synthesis of ibuprofen–nicotinamide co-crystal for the production of a more water soluble formulation

Synthesizing Flexible Minerals with Extreme Bending Strength
Using the sponge protein silicatein-α, German researchers synthesized flexible calcium carbonate spicules