The glycoalkaloid tomatine has been shown to inhibit human cancer cells in vitro but its concentration in tomatoes depends on the ripeness.

A global look at the chemistry industry with breakdowns by company and region.

The enantioselective synthesis of alkaloids, using a tricyclic (R)-phenylglycinol-derived lactam scaffold is reported.

Water exists in 15 distinct phases, now research shows that at 180 K ice and liquid can coexist after water crystallizes.

Wiley-VCH author and Angew. Chem. Advisory Board member, Carolyn Bertozzi will receive this year's $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.

The EU will add EUR 40 million to its contribution to the international Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) program.

RWE Power awards licence to build fluidized-bed drying plants for lignite to Linde subsidiary

Quantum dots employed to increase solar cell efficiency from the current limit of 30 % to more than 60 %.

Accurate chronology of the kings of ancient Egypt mapped using a radiocarbon analysis of short-lived plant remains from the region.

An interesting redox reaction gives a metallacarborane species at RT by C-C bond breakage of a highly stable aromatic arene.