From upcycling plastic waste into valuable raw chemicals, to plastic degrading enzymes in...
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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...
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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...
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...