All 92 naturally occurring elements were identified in Europe while the artificial elements were mostly discovered in the USA

Places of Discovery of the Elements

Who's Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Voting Results Saturday 1 October
Latest results for the predictions for the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Understanding Bacterial Photosynthesis with Quantum Mechanics
German researchers unravel a long-standing puzzle about the structure of spheroidene in the photosynthetic purple bacteria

Put Your 5'-Cap on for Sensitive Detection
Closely related microRNAs can be detected selectively with new 5' quinolone cap

Angewandte Chemie 41/2011: Surprising Ions
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Gautam Desiraju New IUCr President
Gautam Desiraju, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has been elected President of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)

Guidelines for Isotope and Gas Ratios
The terminology and concepts behind the terms for expressing relative differences in stable isotope ratios have been clarified

Angewandte Chemie 40/2011: Tying the Knot
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Detecting Analytes in Natural Solutions
Detection of target analytes in the presence of interfering biomolecules possible with nanoparticles-within-nanoshell design

Adulterated Herbal Viagra
Men's health products labeled as "potency" pills illegally laced with unlicenced analogs of the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil