Chemistry News Articles

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

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...

Research is discovering cheaper alternatives to gold plated connectors...

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...

A European team of scientists may have discovered a shortcut to finding distant planets orbiting far-off stars - you...

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