ChemCafé

As I said in an older post, I was last week attending the ISMSC (stands for International Symposium in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry) in Maastricht, in The Netherlands. We attended many great lectures given by talented speakers (and researchers), and the atmosphere was quite relaxed, as you can see in the following not-to-chemical summary of [...]

Well, this post is not really chemistry-related, but I think it should probably be of interest for a broad audience, especially for everyone who likes dreaming when looking at a cloudless night sky… Nature News reports on Twitter the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, exactly 40 years ago – wish I was alive then… [...]

Our good old friend and companion of many chemical adventures, the periodic table, will soon have a new element in its seventh, unfinished row. The so far unnamed element 112 was recently reported by a team from the GSI Helmholzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (Centre for Heavy Ions Research). The researchers led by prof. Sigurd Hofmann were [...]

Spring is usually associated with renewal, growth and mating. For some people (including myself) it also means hay fever. So last morning I was taking my daily pill against allergies, I looked at the label on the flask, where it is mentionned that the active ingredient is ‘cetirizine hydrochloride‘, which serves as ‘antihistamine‘. So, what [...]