Hans-Joachim Freund, director of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany, will be awarded the Karl Ziegler Prize

Polymerization reaction drives micromotor that weaves a web and can be directed towards specific targets

Timothy Long, VirginiaTech, USA, talks about new charged polymers for biomedical applications

Discovery of a new binary system that includes a planet made of diamond

Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook

Laurence A. Nafie, Syracuse University, USA, talks about his book "Vibrational Optical Activity: Principles and Applications"

Positively charged nanoparticles generated for the first time by versatile and general method that wraps them in amphiphilic polymers

A new map of Antarctica illustrates for the first time how ice moves across the continent

Critical cellular protein that the Ebola virus needs to cause infection and disease identified; it is a promising antiviral target

Pumpkin-shaped molecular container displays high affinity and selectivity for small hydrocarbons with applications in gas separation