Chemistry News

Copper-powered carbon sequestration

We’ve heard about carbon sequestration, deep beneath the Earth, but now here’s another way of dealing with the CO2 problem - with copper. Part o...

Nothing like a good pair of nitric oxide socks

During these cold winter months you might like to strap yourself into some lovely fluffy socks, perhaps that your granny made you at Christmas.  And now you can get special so...

Smell Test for Old Books

There’s the old saying, ‘never judge a book by its cover’ and indeed you shouldn’t – now chemists are saying you should judge them by their smell, instead. Publishing in the Journa...

Liquid identification

If you have travelled by aeroplane recently you will probably have been annoyed by the rules limiting the liquids you can take onto the plane. ...

The Taste of Fizz

The experience of drinking a fizzy drink is both a  physical and chemical experience, and now researchers have discovered just what happens when the bubbles hit your tongue. ...

Biofuels could spell bad news for the oceans

Debate ranges on over how to solve the problem of global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. A new study has shown that if we’re not careful, growing crops to tu...

Electricians shocked to find out how DNA repairs itself

Scientists in America have shown that cells send electrical signals along their DNA to check its integrity. If mutations or damage to DNA goes uncorrecte...

Genes for addiction

Scientists have found a further gene for insurance companies to quiz us about - this one linked to addiction. Writing in PNAS Yale Medical School researche...

Shrimp-shell biodiesel

Scientists in China have found a way to produce a highly efficient catalyst for the production of biodiesel from vegetable oils...using prawn shells. Linguo Yang and his colleagues...

Put a shrimp in your tank

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