The different reaction zones of a candle flame and its heat and mass transfer pathways

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Wonderlab is hosting a conference and the attitude of each lab member turns out to be quite revealing

Caltech Professor Frances H. Arnold sees laboratory evolution designing biology as solution to human problems

We are pleased to announce the winners of our IYC2011 video competition

Nonlinear optical microscopy used to test the concentration of ZnO nanoparticles at different skin depths

A novel property of spider silk: chemical defence against ants

J. Calado, University of Lisbon, talks about chemistry, history and art, and what really drove Mendeleev to create the Periodic Table

First de novo designed metal-containing protein that behaves as an artificial metallohydrolase enzyme

A range of posters celebrating chemists and their contributions to mankind have been produced by graphic designer Simon Page