In the 19th Century, every chemist was a polymath. What changed? And how can we reunite the different chemical disciplines?

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Joseph Wang, University of California, USA, has been awarded the Spiers Memorial Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

The Hanuš Medal of the Czech Chemical Society was awarded to Oldřich Pytela, Czech Republic, and Otto Wolfbeis, Germany

The absolute configuration of (+)-erythro-mefloquine has been confirmed by X-ray crystallography, CD spectroscopy, and molecular modelling

Contact lenses powered by the wearer's tears can detect glucose levels and so might be used for continual monitoring of patients with diabetes

New spectrochemical analysis of naturally aged paper reveals normally unavailable information on the cellulose degradation by-products

Book said to allow getting new research done that you can publish, quicker and smarter. … it's a clearly written, intelligent guide

Michael Hampe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, argues that scientists should not oversell their work in the pursuit of competitive funding

A device for the genetic detection of pathogenic bacteria has emerged from microfluidics research coupled with NMR spectroscopy