New experimental set-up designed to detect superheavy elements helps probe the predicted island of stability around element 114.

Welcome to Stability Island

Israel Journal of Chemistry
The first issue of the re-launched Israel Journal of Chemistry celebrates the structure, function and inactivation of ribosome.

Espresso – A Feast for the Senses
Klaus Roth concludes his look at espresso with a scrutinizing glance at the foamy, consolidated surface layer, the crema

Science at the End of the Universe
The creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was not just a comic writer but a lover of science – from quantum physics to evolution.

Digging Deep
Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry presents a "Symposium in Print on Tunneling in Chemical and Biological Reactions"

Two at a Time
The ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material – silicon.

Factors Behind the Impact
With new impact factors being announced, ChemViews takes a look at their calculation, controversy and usage.

Future Visions of Chemistry: Koop Lammertsma
"Gone is gone. There are no alternatives." - Interview with Koop Lammertsma, VU University, the Netherlands.

Future Visions of Chemistry: Ben Davis
"It puzzles me why some chemists do not see chemistry as the big science." - Interview with Ben Daivis, University of Oxford, UK

Superoxide to the Rescue!
Reaction pathway between sodium atoms and oxygen molecules on solid surfaces probed by EPR spectroscopy.