Students aged 14 to 18 were asked to send their ideas for experiments to be performed on the International Space Station in a two minute video

Biodegradable gadolinium contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been developed by researchers in China

Merck expands capabilities on novel materials for display and lighting

Phenanthrenes synthesized in a straightforward manner from arenes and styrenes by using cross dehydrogenative coupling

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for April 2012

Pretreating cobalt-based catalysts with reaction gas improves their performance in the partial oxidation of methane

Herbert C. Brown won the Nobel Prize for his work on organoboranes and hydroboration; also the answer to Guess the Chemist (5)

Metal-organic framework based on a [2]rotaxane stops random dispersion and incoherent motion seen with rotaxanes in solution

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

The German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry presented several awards at their annual conference in Leipzig