How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery? Klaus Roth looks at how ethanol is metabolized

Zeinab Shaaban Abd El-Ati Abou El-Naga, Mansoura University, Egypt, combines zoology and chemistry to develop safer insecticides

It's Gin-Jo's birthday in the Wonderlab and Sophie has arranged a little surprise

Paul Rey, organic chemist and member of the European Network MAGMANet, has passed away

First fast and efficient electroanalytical method to be applied to a continuous, in situ detection of H2O2 in organic oxidation reactions

José L. Alonso, Jin-Quan Yu, Guy Bertrand, and Kenichiro Itami, are interviewed this month

Hierarchically mesostructured silica nanoparticles act as superhydrophilic and Vis/NIR antireflection coatings

Conformational switching between aromatic states has been probed in expanded porphyrins

German-Japanese research team receives Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize 2011

This year's Wolf Prize in chemistry goes jointly to Stuart A. Rice, Ching Tang, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski