The groups of Uwe Meierhenrich and Cornelia Meinert have used multidimensional gas chromatography to detect building blocks of genes in artificial cosmos

Diamino Acids Found in Simulated Interstellar Ices

Angewandte Chemie 9/2012: Sunny Outlook
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Most Accessed Articles: January 2012
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2012

Hormone Runoff from Agricultural Fields
Rainfall can mobilize hormones from biosolids-amended agricultural fields directly to surface waters or redistribute them to terrestrial sites

Periodic Tales
Hugh Aldersey-Williams' book, Periodic Tales – A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc, is reviewed by Matthias Driess

Semiconductor Tin-film Solar Cell Absorber
Synchroton-based characterization techniques to illuminate properties of compound semiconductor thin-film solar cell absorbers reviewed

Mapping Hidden Nanostructures
New method to map nanostructures within materials may lead to biological imaging of the internal organization of cells

Angewandte Chemie 8/2012: Hard and Soft
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Virus Detection – Dead or Alive
First DNA-based biosensor that distinguishes between live and dead viruses

Angewandte Chemie 7/2012: Providing a Sense of Orientation
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie