Instant insight: Colloids deliver the goods

08 September 2008

Unilever's Krassimir Velikov and Eddie Pelan reveal the design behind innovative, nutritious and tasty foods

Interview: Finger on the pulse

28 August 2008

Paul Corkum talks to Hilary Crichton about attosecond pulses and how developing new ideas is like skiing downhill

Microfluidics in a FLASH

10 September 2008

US scientists have made microfluidic devices using only paper, a pen and sunlight

Nanoparticles hunt down cancer cells

03 September 2008

Cancer cells can be detected then destroyed using a nanostructure designed by South Korean researchers

Probing mercury contamination

02 September 2008

Detecting mercury pollution could become a lot easier, thanks to a new visual technique developed by scientists in China

Surf's up for science

19 September 2008

Chemists trade white coats for wetsuits to test lab-on-a-surfboard

Cracking down on counterfeit drugs

28 August 2008

A new Tamiflu screening method could help foil counterfeiters, say US scientists

The perfect surfactant

12 September 2008

Water droplets can be used as microvessels for biological assays thanks to a new surfactant developed by scientists in Europe and the US

Colloids light the way to printable electronics

15 September 2008

Cheap electronic devices can be printed using commercial printing presses thanks to light-emitting colloidal inks

Engineering success

CrystEngComm celebrated its tenth year of publication on 28 August with a lunch reception held at the International Union of Crystallography in Osaka, Japan