Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES)

“There is no country, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, where the inhabitants don’t practice tattooing” observed Charles Darwin in his “Origin of the Arts”. The current renaissance of tattooing revisits a tradition fostered in numerous cultural environments over centuries.

Dr. Isabel Abánades Lázaro of the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol)

There’s a moment in Disney’s animated epic “Frozen” where the heroine uses her “icy powers” to produce snow, and lots of it. If only it was this simple in real life! To safeguard against nature’s unpredictability, snowmakers continue to find ways of manufacturing snow on a large scale. And the heat is on: Europe felt its warmest winter on record in 2015–16; Switzerland is entering its third consecutive Christmas season with little or no snowfall, whereas in the southern French Alps snowfall is down as much as 80% [1].

How do you distinguish a shaken can of carbonated beverage from an unshaken one?

The Difficult Birth of a Champagne Bubble After the turbulence due to pouring subsides, we are confronted with a roughly half-filled glass. Admittedly some of the CO 2departs unnoticed from the supersaturated solution by passing directly into the gas phase via the surface of the liquid, but some of it rewards us in its phase transition with a highly cherished spectacle: in certain places, on the walls of the glass, but also directly within the sparkling wine itself, tiny bubbles form, at regular intervals and seemingly out of nothing — bubbles that slowly rise, growing larger in the process, until they finally burst when they reach the surface.

Does coffee from the lab sound tasty? I have been told that it can certainly keep up with conventional coffee and is also particularly environmentally friendly.

Professor Mario Markus, Dortmund, Germany, has spent his life exploring “the corners of the universe”, first as a physicist looking at instabilities in plasmas and self-organizing physico-chemical patterns, then as an artist, author, and poet exploring human nature as well as the artistry of science.

1) Marie Sklowdoska Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (for physics in 1903) and the first person — man or woman — to win the award twice (the second was for chemistry in 1911). When did she and Pierre Curie marry?

The EuChemS Chemistry Congress is the largest European chemistry congress. It is held every other year in a different European country. Events so far have taken place in Budapest, Torino, Nuremberg, Prague, Istanbul, Seville, Liverpool, Lisbon, and now in Dublin.

How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery?