Scientists who were honored presented curiosities such as how people react to being told they are intelligent, how alcohol may aid foreign language speaking, and the physics of pasta sauce clumping

2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

Who’s Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 – Voting Results September 19
Latest results of your predictions for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

A Transiton-Metal-Free Shortcut to Alkynyl–Sulfur Building Blocks
Under base conditions, thiadiazoles generate alkynylthiolates that smoothly substitute α-carbonyl bromides, yielding diverse S-containing tetrasubstituted carbon stereocenters

Japan’s Big Three Petrochemical Companies Merge Polyolefin Units
Mitsui, Idemitsu, and Sumitomo to merge PP and PE operations into Prime Polymer

Curious 2027 – Future Insight Conference
Health, nutrition, synthetic biology, materials, energy, digitalization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, mobility, space flight, secrets of the human mind, and new ways of working together

From Flat Rings to 3D Carbon-Nitrogen Cage Drug Scaffolds
Huan-Ming Huang, Shanghai, talks about using blue light and palladium to transform flat molecules into rigid 3D cages, opening doors for next-generation drugs

Bridging European Societies and Global Chemistry: Speaking with the New Editor-in-Chief of EurJIC
Chemistry Europe and Wiley-VCH have named Dr. Axel Straube as Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
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Cucurbit[7]uril-Based Polymers with Dual Photochromism and Fluorescence
Cucurbit[7]uril-based complexes with tunable assembly show adjustable photochromism and fluorescence for multilevel anti-counterfeiting and encryption

EuChemS Walter Thiel Award for Sandra Luber
Sandra Luber, University of Zurich, Switzerland, honored for outstanding contributions to computational chemistry

Marie Curie Exhibition in Genua Showcases Her Italian Travels
The exhibition, recently opened in Genoa, offers a unique glimpse into Curie’s travels and will continue to Rome, Pisa, and Paris