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.
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...