Vincenzo Barone, the new president of the Società Chimica Italiana (SCI), talks about the SCI, IYC 2011, politics, young chemists

Imaging intact virus and a membrane structure possible with intensive and ultra-short X-ray pulses from free electron laser

Thirdhand smoke re-emitted from surfaces could pose long-term health risk while firsthand smoke does damage in minutes

Separating spin isomers of water is possible with a magnetic "lens" — Discovery has potential for improving NMR sensitivity

Nuclear imaging techniques study the brain distribution of multiple sclerosis drugs with additional iodine

An overview of the current edition of Angewandte Chemie

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for December 2010

Axel Schulz, Annie Powell, Takeshi Kawase, and Nobuharu Iwasawa, are interviewed this month

Image sensors in cell phones are partially color-blind so not suitable for spectroscopy – this may change with new transparent coating

A new comic series by Sophie Lin: It's a bad day for glassware in Sophie's lab as they play Survivor ...