Chemistry News Articles

Online computer gaming is sometimes viewed as a mere pastime without much outward benefit, but new research reveals how...

Plants able to grow on toxic explosive components could clean up contaminated compounds.

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered how coffee spills evaporate to leave hollow circular...

Diamonds have been found in candle flames...

Synthesised derivatives of a compound extracted from ginseng appear to reduce the destructive side-effects of cancer...

Good news for hayfever sufferers – by cracking the crystal structure of the histamine receptor, scientists are on the...

Porous molecules, useful in a huge range of applications including separating chemicals and catalysing reactions, may...

Attacking bacteria are sensed by plants which need to fine-tune their immune systems in response.

By studying the wobbles of a compound called ytterbium flouride in an electric field, scientists have discovered the...

Scientists have developed a sugar-fuelled chemical filter to clean up contaminated water.

Researchers in Seattle and Washington have solved an “enormous jigsaw puzzle” to design two novel proteins that bind to...

A group of Brazilian researchers led by Renata Castro, have found that the classic comedy banana skin is actually very...

Scientists have added a sparkle to the arsenal of anti-tumour agents by successfully demonstrating that diamonds can...

With a breakthrough that could hasten the arrival of a new generation of even more powerful microprocessors, scientists...

The origins of life on earth are a hotly debated topic among scientists. One theory suggests that meteorites brought...

Researchers in America this week have dramatically enlarged the catalogue of known genes which allow an organism to...

A method invented by nanotechnologists at The University of Texas in Dallas has been used for the first time to create...

In case you were thinking of shunning turkey for Christmas dinner this year and chowing down on hamburgers, researchers...

The discovery of bacteria that appear to thrive on toxic arsenic may have implications for our understanding of the...

A lot of us like a nice glass of wine at the end of the day, but for around 500 million people in the world, that’s not...

In a move that could hold the key to better drugs to beat a range of mood disorders including depression, French...

A new more efficient way of converting carbon-dioxide back to carbon has been invented that uses solar energy very...

One of the hottest areas of materials science is the development of composite materials that combine the useful...

Millions of tonnes of methane locked up beneath the shoreline of Siberia are becoming unstable and escaping into the...