The lack of licensed treatments or vaccines for Ebola leads to emergency use of the experimental drug ZMapp

Fighting Ebola Without Knowing How

Sensor Helps Control Milk Quality
A BODIPY dye-based fluorescence detector can instantly quantify milk fat content

Molecular Three-step Shuffle
A shuttle that moves between three different stations by using chemical stimuli has been developed

Catch Bullets with Foam
Studies reveal details about how foams stop fast bullets

Solid H2O2 Alternatives
Solid H2O2 equivalents for selective oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides and ketones much safer and convenient to handle

New RSC President
Professor Dominic Tildesley is now president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK

3D Printed Fuel Cell Components
3D printing used to produce flow plates which distribute liquid reagents and gaseous products in fuel cells

B38 Cage: An All-Boron Fullerene Predicted
Ab initio calculations predict a stable fullerene-like B38 cage cluster

Probing Chirality
An organic probe that can determine the absolute configuration of 1,2-diamines has been developed

Probe Ionic Liquid Acidity
Mesityl oxide can be used as an NMR probe to measure a wide acidity range for ionic liquids