Interviews about Chemistry

Superbugs last days on doorhandles. But if we made them from copper they could kill microbes in seconds. How does the...

What is the future of our kitchen cabinets? Home coffee roasters are up there and boil in the bag could be making a...

Row seven of the periodic table has been completed with the discovery of four super-heavy metals...

When you're drinking can you really tell when you're over the limit? The Naked Scientists get breathalysed!

Why does overindulging leave you feeling so awful the next day, and can science help you avoid a hangover?

Once stung by a nettle, doc leaves

Just how badly damaged is the earth beneath our feet? And why is it we're only beginning to do something about it...

It's not just that our soils are being eroded but also degraded. Is this having an impact on the quality of the...

Geoff Baldwin is using nanocages to target cancer drugs to tumours, leaving healthy cells unharmed.

Paul Freemont is co-director and co-founder of the Imperial College synthetic biology hub, told me about the...

Kat Arney tackles a long held myth that glass is a liquid...

Sugar rots your teeth, but not all sugars are the same...

Sugar has been shown to make us gain weight but how does the sugar we eat turn to fat? And is this different for when...

The elemental carbon in cigarette smoke causes inflammation and, ultimately, chronic lung disease... emphysema in...

Modelling of Saturn's moon Enceladus has revealed that there could be hydrogen - a vital food source for microbes...

London is facing fines of £300 million per year for illegally polluting the air. What are the authorities doing to...

Just how safe is the air we breath? With a pollution montior, we hit the streets to see what we're inhaling and...

When you take into account everything, from construction to battery recycling, are electric cars any greener?

A chemical breakthough could enable batteries to store five times more energy than today's models, transforming...

The award wining work uncovered how cells repair damaged DNA - a fundamental mechanism in cells and important in cancer.

A new fizzing powder stops bleeding in its tracks...

Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, reveals all about her journey into orbit alongside a team of Russian...

It takes more than just the individual to get an astronaut into space, who are the unsung heroes of space travel?

Coffee lovers beware: drinking it at night disrupts your body clock by almost an hour, leading to less sleep...