Chad Mirkin named Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year
24 May 2013 News and Analysis
This year’s prize has been awarded to US nanotechnologist Chad Mirkin for his work on spherical nucleic acids
Digitally unrolling historical scrolls
22 May 2013 Research
X-ray tomography can unroll and read parchment scrolls that have become stuck together.
News
Releasing reactive oxygen
24 May 2013 Research
Light prompts nanoparticles to discharge singlet oxygen payloads
Microwaves show their hand
24 May 2013 Research
New technique can tell left from right even at low concentrations
$500m fine over generics fraud for Ranbaxy
Company has pleaded guilty to fabricating data and producing substandard drugs
Filming phonons
Femtosecond film captures vibrations in gold nanocrystal
Egyptian research budget ‘unspent’
Egypt's ministry of scientific research faces funding cuts, after failing to spend most of...
The power of multivalency against cholera
Inhibitor combines a pentavalent scaffold with cell membrane sugar to trick and trap the c...
Understanding sulfa drugs' side effects
Over 70 years since their first use, scientists discover how sulfanonamide drugs cause the...
Features
Survival in the freezer
2 May 2013 
Feature
How do animals survive in the extreme cold? James Mitchell Crow investigates
Lean green microbe machines
For its proponents, algae hold the promise of a clean source of fuel, food or drugs. Antho...
What does DNA do?
The more we learn about DNA, the less we seem to know, as Philip Ball discovers
Podcasts
The Chemistry World Podcast
Monthly news, interviews and discussions on the latest topics in science
Chemistry in its element: compounds
Each week a leading scientist or author tells the story behind a different compound
Blog
How a lab-on-a-chip could keep you fresh and dry
24 May 2013
Pint of science
23 May 2013
More than just camouflage
20 May 2013
Opinions
Comments
Compulsory licences: necessity or threat?
Are compulsory licences for patent-protected drugs a necessary measure, or a threat to innovation?
The Crucible
The name's (quadruple) bond?
Philip Ball discusses the contentious issue of C2 bonding. Dare we draw four lines?
