Jules Hoffmann, University of Strasbourg, a pioneer in insect immunity, is awarded the highest scientific distinction in France

Green chemistry ‘upcycling’ trick is solvent-free, one-step and converts plastic bags into highly valuable carbon nanotubes and carbon spheres

Men's health products labeled as "potency" pills illegally laced with unlicenced analogs of the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil

Rainer Metternich to Head Roche's Small Molecules Research Group, Basel, Switzerland

Yuan Lee and Andrew Yang, Taiwan, outline a path to putting humanity on sustainable footing in their Angewandte Chemie Editorial

Results for Friday 23 September of predictions for the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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M. Wyatt, National Mass Spectrometry Service Centre, UK, looks at why MALDI-TOFMS analysis of organometallic complexes is so uncommon

Study using human cells establisheds linkages between alcohol metabolism and acetaldehyde-DNA damage causing cancer

Largest cluster complex supported by butylsulfonylcalix[4]arene ligands has unusual topology and antiferromagnetic properties