Chemistry News

Cure for aches, pains and spliff joints

Scientists have uncovered a powerful anti-inflammatory compound in cannabis and other herbs. ...

Prostate cancer discovers its female side

Prostate cancer affects more than 670,000 men worldwide, and researchers have known for a long time that the disease is fuelled by the male sex hormone testosterone.  Men with...

Better way to beat bugs

Scientists have developed a neural network which has discovered a clutch of new insect repellent molecules, many of them more powerful than DEET, the World's current gold standard....

Food for thought - two chemicals control appetite

Scientists have found that a combination of two appetite-controlling hormones can provoke significant weight loss in obese animals, suggesting that the same ought to work for fat h...

A fuel station in your garage

The rush towards biofuels to run your car on keeps going even if the mathematics behind it are possibly dubious. Now an American company has built an ethanol generation system for ...

Is this the basis of Bird Navigation?

Scientists have shown how birds might be able to see the Earth's magnetic field, helping them to navigate.  A team from Oxford University and Arizona State University, writing...

Plant Aids in HIV Battle

Scientists have discovered how to make large amounts of a plant chemical which has potent anti-HIV effects. ...

Best tool to find explosives? Mine's a mongoose!

Engineers in Sri Lanka have come up with a cheap but effective way to locate landmines - a mongoose tethered to a robot! ...

Vitamin death-link hard pill to swallow

Vitamin supplements might make you die sooner, say researchers. Goran Bjelakovic and his colleagues, from the University of Copenhagen, looked at the resul...

Testosterone beefs up market bubbles

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that the performance of financial traders is linked to their hormones. ...