A new approach to contraception, this time for men, is being developed by researchers in...
Chemistry News Articles
News about chemistry, matter, gases, fuels, green chemistry, nanotechnology...
15 October 2013
Who won Nobel prizes for science in 2013, and what did they discover?
13 September 2013
A chemical in tarantula venom can kill insect pests that eat it and might work as an environmentally-friendly...
28 August 2013
An enviromental improvement in military flares could also result in clearer fireworks display...
22 August 2013
Can we predict where to focus water checks for the 140 million people affected by arsenic contaminated water supplies?
31 July 2013
A tiny diamond-based sensor 1/50,000th of a millimetre across can be used to measure the temperature at specific points...
25 July 2013
Close study of the genome of the oil palm tree could result in significantly increased palm oil yield.
17 July 2013
A scalpel that can discriminate healthy and cancerous tissue can tell surgeons if tumours have been completely removed...
24 June 2013
How Venus lost all its water in its early history...
06 June 2013
Manganese leaching from lava stones around Mt Etna could explain a high incidence of Parkinson's disease in the...
16 May 2013
Discharging of polyisobutene at sea has killed or injured 4,000 birds...
09 May 2013
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...
02 May 2013
From 1 December this year, farmers in the EU will be banned from using three insecticides on crops that attract bees...
02 May 2013
A new floating material has been developed which can soak up oil spills, in the ongoing fight against water pollution.
24 April 2013
Biofuels – often suggested as low or no carbon alternatives to fossil – may not be as green as they seem.
22 April 2013
E. coli bacteria capable of producing diesel have been engineered by UK scientists.
18 April 2013
A polymer nanosuit to protect insects in a vacuum, technique inspired by nature.
18 April 2013
Strange motion of water molecules mixed with nanotubes and carbon isotopes. What could the applications of this new...
07 March 2013
Flame retardant DNA
28 February 2013
A new catalyst that can unleash the clean potential of hydrogen without the risk of explosion, has been developed by...
28 February 2013
Hydrogen cars are limited by the problem of gas storage. Research into efficiently extracting hydrogen from methanol my...
21 February 2013
A bone-repairing calcium-rich paste that also carries a fracture-healing gene-therapy DNA message has been developed in...
21 February 2013
A way to encapsulate squads of enzymes inside a thin polymer shell resembling an organelle makes sequential reaction...
31 January 2013
The resolution of magnetic resonance imaging could be about to go up several notches thanks to a new, nanoscale imaging...