Chemistry News

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. ...

Evolution seen on a laboratory bench

In an experiment that might help to silence the critics of evolution, scientists in California have made genes evolve on a laboratory bench. Writing in thi...

Ivy makes nanoparticles

Ivy plants secrete nanoparticles that help them to climb walls, scientists have discovered.  The evergreen plants cling onto surfaces using tiny rootlets that spring out from ...

Bacteria eat antibiotics

Scientists in the US have discovered large numbers of soil-dwelling bacteria that are not only resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics, they also eat them! ...

Bad memories lost to the ether

A new study has shown that a whiff of anaesthetic might be able to wipe away bad memories and even prevent post-traumatic stress disorder....

Sing a song of sewage

Scientists have found that birds exposed to oestrogens in the environment sing better but have weaker immune systems. Katherine Buchanan and her colleagues...

Water-Guzzlers

Running vehicles on alternatives to fossil fuels could stress scarce water resources, US scientists have warned. ...

The Smell of the Reef

Phytoplankton and algae living on coral reefs release a chemical which attracts fish from miles around, and could play a key role in reef ecology....