Cambridge University, UK, has topped a league table of the world's best universities, with Harvard and MIT, USA, ranked second and third

Dave Gustafson, Senior Fellow, Monsanto Company, discusses climate change and its impact on crop production

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Ulrike Flad is the granddaughter of the founder of the Dr. Flad Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, and will take over its management from her father

Study of the structure–activity relationship of steroid sulfatase inhibitors explains why Irosustat is the best in its class

Panda poop contains bacteria that could help produce cheaper, more abundant biofuels

Richard Zare, Stanford University, USA, discusses his editorial on why the West should help China develop its science

Timothy Long, VirginiaTech, USA, talks about new charged polymers for biomedical applications

Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook

Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany