No matter how carefully you prepare and run your column, things can still go wrong. We look at some common problems and possible alternatives

Rafael Luque, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain, shares his experiences and benefits of using social media in sciences

In this final part, Klaus Roth asks: Do Stradivarius violins really sound better than all the rest?

Short peptides can function as effective asymmetric catalysts and templates for the controlled formation of metal nanoparticles

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Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Terpenoids isolated from common ragweed show ability to induce airways irritation

Heinz A. Staab, former President of the Max Planck Society and GDCh, died on July 29

This meeting united science and Portuguese culture and had a special EurJOC and ChemPubSoc Europe session

Banska Stiavnica, Banská Štavnica, Schemnitz, or Selmecbánya, a town with a lively political history and groundbreaking for science