Chemistry News Articles

Use your chatterbox co-workers to power the entire office's electronics...

Poor workmanship and materials are to blame for fracking-related contamination of water supplies, new research has...

A consortium of more than 80 researchers from 18 countries have decoded the genome sequence of Eucalyptus grandis.

Higher carbon dioxide levels expected next century cause fish to struggle to find their school friends, new research...

Electricity-producing "photovoltaic" solar panels may be about to become a lot lighter and a lot cheaper,...

Using bacteria to break down lignin, a woody byproduct of paper production, may be the key to creating a renewable...

Bananas modified to have more vitamin A and iron to help combat chronic nutritional deficiencies - but do they taste...

This week the USA has carried out its first executions since a botched lethal injection in April. But how does the...

New way to monitor drug levels, with a digital camera.

A new pair of artificial DNA letters have been engineered into bacteria by US scientists.

Will use of renewable energy take off in 2014?

Graphene looks set to enter mass market manufacturing in 2014...

The 2013 opium harvest was the largest on record. We explore its history in Quick Fire Science

Bonfire Night is fast approaching: so what is the chemistry of fireworks?

GM plants with high leaf oil content could transform farming, while reducing environmental damage

Blood from the last meal consumed by a mosquito 46 million years ago has been identified inside a fossilised mosquito...

Who won Nobel prizes for science in 2013, and what did they discover?

A chemical in tarantula venom can kill insect pests that eat it and might work as an environmentally-friendly...

An enviromental improvement in military flares could also result in clearer fireworks display...

Can we predict where to focus water checks for the 140 million people affected by arsenic contaminated water supplies?

A tiny diamond-based sensor 1/50,000th of a millimetre across can be used to measure the temperature at specific points...

Close study of the genome of the oil palm tree could result in significantly increased palm oil yield.

Ultra-lightweight electronics fashioned from thin plastic films formed into microcircuits have been developed in Japan...

A scalpel that can discriminate healthy and cancerous tissue can tell surgeons if tumours have been completely removed...