William M. Burton developed the first commercially successful cracking process for crude oil

60th Anniversary: William M. Burton's Death

Macromolecular Crystallography is Very Much Alive
Selected articles show that macromolecular crystallography is very much alive and still a vibrant and evolving discipline

Most Accessed Articles: November 2014
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals for November 2014

ISO Standard Always the Best?
Rapid quantification of polar compounds in edible, thermo-oxidized oils by HPTLC densitometry

Intercept Signals for Bed Bug Gathering
Scientists finally identify the chemical components of the bed bug aggregation pheromone - premiss to develop commercial traps

Examine DNA Using a Phone
A handheld smartphone-based fluorescence microscopy platform can effectively image and size single DNA molecules

Discoloration of the Taj Mahal Due to Air Pollution
Relative amounts of light absorbing particles deposited to surfaces used to estimate surface color changes

Family Tree of Macromolecular Crystallographers
Most important achievements of crystallographers that led to major advances in understanding of structure and function of biological macromolecules

Angewandte Chemie 52/2014: Happy Holidays
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Ubiquitary Plastic Pollution
More plastic particles than thought spread throughout the world’s oceans easier than thought