An unprecedented alkaloid containing both epsilon-lactam and delta-lactone rings has been characterized for its medicinal potential

Dayang Wang, Günter Mayer, and Hiroshi Shinokubo were interviewed

The sea bed in the Arctic deep sea is increasingly strewn with litter and plastic waste

Making functionalized bridged bicycles in natural product synthesis just got easier thanks to a new carbene cascade reaction

Cellulose is effectively converted into methanol, propylene, and ethylene glycol over Cu-based catalysts

Long-ranged electrostatic order of ions at the nanoscale (in space and time) in solution defies assumption of random distribution

Merck’s organic light-emitting diode (OLED) materials combined with Epson’s technology that converts OLED materials into ink

Nanosheets of boron carbon nitride have large capacity for lithium ions and could be used as "green" electrodes in rechargeable batteries

Naoaki Yabuuchi, Japan, awarded €50,000 prize by Volkswagen and BASF for his new Na-ion battery electrode materials

Asia is expected to overtake North America in bio-based polylactic acid (PLA) capacity by 2020