Opening the bottle and choosing the glass – Who would have guessed that both would give us insights into thermodynamics?

Sparkling Wine, Champagne & Co – Part 2

Past President of IUPAC on the IYC 2011
For the first time in the 100-year history of the IUPAC, the worldwide chemistry community will be celebrating the achievements of chemistry

Cutting Nanotubes with Compression
New understanding of dynamics of cutting carbon nanotubes could lead to better-quality nanotubes for use in electronics

Incensed About Herbal High
Revealed: Biochemistry explaining potency and addictive nature of cannabis-like "herbal high" sold as incense in Europe

An Array of Colorful Polymers
Researchers have synthesized different colored polyesters simply by changing the ratio of the starting materials

Cracking Zeolite Design
Zeolite Y crystals with hierarchical porosity have been synthesized and display close to ideal hydrocracking selectivity

Atomic Weights Revised
Atomic weights of 10 elements to be revised to reflect their natural abundances. Elements with a single isotope will not change

Crystallographic Confusion
Two bond or not two bond? That is a question of X-ray crystal structure interpretation, especially for cyclobutadiene

Landfill Leachate ̶ A Dangerous Liquid
When landfill waste degrades and rain rinses the resulting products out, a black liquid and toxic leachate is formed

Nanopores Identify Modified DNA Bases
New solid-state nanopore technique is sensitive enough to distinguish hydroxymethylcytosine from methylcytosine