New £1m prize will celebrate, on an international scale, the very best engineering in the world

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

HgII-Selective Fluorescent Indicator
A simple fluorescent indicator that undergoes a new type of reaction only in the presence of Hg(II) developed

Understanding Ice
The unusual properties of ice under compression are due to Coulomb repulsion between bonding and non-bonding electron pairs

Towards Understanding Color Perception
A rhodopsin protein mimic has been designed where wavelength absorption can be drastically tuned

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Breakthrough in Fighting Chikungunya Fever
A step forward in enhancing pandemic preparedness against the infectious disease Chikungunya fever

New Route to Soluble Amidoborane Complexes
Several new synthetic routes to soluble magnesium parent-amidoborane complexes are reported

Angewandte Chemie 15/2012: Enlightenment
Overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie

Removing As (V) from Water
Cactus mucilage and cactus pectin investigated as low cost material for arsenic removal

Ring Strain Restrains
In a nanohoop molecule, macrocyclic ring strain slows rotation of aryl units, leading to interconverting atropisomers