Banska Stiavnica, Banská Štavnica, Schemnitz, or Selmecbánya, a town with a lively political history and groundbreaking for science
Roots of our Practice of Science
New Term of Office for H. Schwarz
Professor Helmut Schwarz, TU Berlin, Germany, elected to another five-year term as President of the Humboldt Foundation
Glowing Fingerprints
Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence
Origin of Compensation in Heterogenous Catalysis
Entropic origin of compensation in heterogeneous catalysis revealed by in situ surface coverage analysis of RuO2-catalysed HCl oxidation
The Cut and Thrust of Spectroscopy
Novel spectroscopic technique dubbed SABRE can cut data acquisition times for 2D nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy experiments
New Insights into Surface Tension of Water
The equilibrium surface tension of water is that of an interface charged by the flow of hydroxide and not that of the pristine air/water surface
Angewandte Chemie 31/2012: A Bright Image
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
Concentrating on Explosives
New device based on a porous zeolite can preconcentrate tiny quantities of explosives in a forensic sample for sensitive detection
65th Birthday: Bernd Ondruschka
Professor Bernd Ondruschka, the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, celebrates his 65th birthday
Olympics: Where Will The Medals Go?
Researchers from Bochum, Germany, predicted medals for 172 countries at the 2012 Olympic Games even before the games start