Interviews about Chemistry

The iridescent wings of a tropical butterfly could hold the key to developing new highly, selective gas detection...

For most, science is defined by textbook assignments, but this is set to change. Will 15-year olds soon be publishing...

Philae touched down on a comet back in 2014 but what has this revealed about the Kuiper Belt?

Graphene has some truly exceptional properties. The real killer application will be in something totally novel, but...

We have heard all the hype, but what is graphene actually doing for us right now? What are the current uses of this...

Graphene has some impressive properties, but how do we actually make it commercially? What happens in a graphene-...

Graphene was first isolated in 2004. Since then we have heard the hype, but what actually IS graphene? And why is...

How do hormones help take you on a path to a gender? And what can disrupt this process?

Explosives have been used for over 1000 years, but what makes an explosive and how do they work?

Covalent bonds help bacteria stick to tissue.

The Great Fire burned for 4 days and destroyed 13,000 houses. We investigate how it started, why it spread, and how...

Falling ash and scorching pyroclastic flows are the most dangerous elements of an eruption. How do they work?

Eruptions are dramatic events that tear apart mountains. But what is actually going on inside an erupting volcano?

After a quick sniff women were able to tell if sweat had come from a happy man or not...

Can you poor a cup of steaming hot tea from a teapot made entirely of chocolate?

Could a chocolate bar become the next health food?

How useless would a chocolate teapot be? Only one way to find out...

Surprise friends with a weird, squishy egg that has lost the hard parts of its shell.

Your school textbook got it wrong, it is possible to "unboil" an egg, and the process could have big...

Testing for drugs and toxins in the body is vital to a solving whole host of crimes.

Scientists have discovered how the kings of the colour-change, chameleons, alter their skin hue...

Nice to sniff you? Scientists have shown that people sniff their fingers twice as often after a handshake...

Light is fundamental to how we see, but what happens if our eyes can no longer detect light? Could we make bionic eyes...

We couldn't live without electricity. Italian inventor Alessandro Volta discovered how to harness its power with...