Chemistry News Articles

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.

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

How Venus lost all its water in its early history...

Manganese leaching from lava stones around Mt Etna could explain a high incidence of Parkinson's disease in the...

Discharging of polyisobutene at sea has killed or injured 4,000 birds...

The fate of one of the world's main sources of helium is about to be decided - and prices are set to soar sky high...

From 1 December this year, farmers in the EU will be banned from using three insecticides on crops that attract bees...

A new floating material has been developed which can soak up oil spills, in the ongoing fight against water pollution.

Biofuels – often suggested as low or no carbon alternatives to fossil – may not be as green as they seem.

E. coli bacteria capable of producing diesel have been engineered by UK scientists.

A polymer nanosuit to protect insects in a vacuum, technique inspired by nature.

Strange motion of water molecules mixed with nanotubes and carbon isotopes. What could the applications of this new...

Flame retardant DNA