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Growing a microgarden

17 May 2013 Research

Barium carbonate crystals have been coaxed to form nano-flowers by controlling their chemical environment

Plasmonic milk monitor collars spoilt dairy

7 May 2013 Research

Stained glass technology to stop you putting gone off milk in your tea

Europe to ban controversial pesticides

30 April 2013 News and Analysis

Two-year EU-wide moratorium on the use of neonicotinoids to be enforced in bid to boost bee health

Carving graphene snowflakes with gases

23 April 2013 Research

Modifying a simple etching technique can carve fractal patterns into graphene sheets

Healthy chocolate gets a vodka jelly reboot

7 April 2013 Research

Warwick team who reduced the fat in chocolate using fruit juice create new system to add alcohol

Beer filtration could add arsenic

7 April 2013 Research

German institution that analyses beer suspects common filtration material could add arsenic to the mix

More clues to Maya blue

5 April 2013 Research

Their pigment lasted longer than their culture, but how did Maya chemists make their long lasting blue colour?

Droplet printing assembles soft networks

4 April 2013 Research

New 3D printing technique vastly scales up droplet networks, opening up new potential applications from soft robotics to drug delivery

Funding boost for PhDs

2 April 2013 News and Analysis

EPSRC to invest £84.2 million in postgraduate training through doctoral training grants

£4.4m donation gives RI breathing room

20 March 2013 News and Analysis

Anonymous donation to the Royal Institution clears debts but does not yet secure the organisation's future

UK's research shortfall reduced

20 March 2013 News and Analysis

Cut in research capital reduced by additional commitments but more needed, campaign group warns

New definition for supramolecular chemistry

8 March 2013 Research

In supramolecular chemistry entropy rules over enthalpy, say Mexican scientists,

New publishing models test the water

21 February 2013 News and Analysis

Several new services have launched that deviate from the current publishing models

UK-India projects launched

20 February 2013 News and Analysis

Scholarships and research links announced as part of prime minister's visit to India

Biosynthesis of methylmercury discovered

12 February 2013 Research

Route from inorganic to organic mercury isolated

Soft robots take a leap forward

11 February 2013 Research

Pneumatically powered soft robots can now be powered by combustion, making their movements faster

Prussian blue

30 January 2013 Podcast | Compounds

Laura Howes looks back to a time when feeling blue was a good thing - and wearing it was 'bling'

Five green chemical feedstock projects launched

29 January 2013 News and Analysis

New projects will investigate how feedstock chemicals can be produced without fossil fuels

Paper crane to carbon electrode

29 January 2013 Research

Group use origami to demonstrate their new electrode printing technique

Switchable catenane ready for data storage

25 January 2013 Research

A highly unusual multi-radical structure that has up to four unpaired electrons, yet remains stable, could find uses in batteries and computer memory

Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA?

24 January 2013 Research

Cambridge scientists turn DNA into a data storage medium and use it to store all of Shakespeare's sonnets

Post-publication peer review blog launches

22 January 2013 News and Analysis

Chemists hope forum will be a place where published synthetic methods are scrutinised and lab checks are crowd sourced

Nanotube fibre production in a spin

11 January 2013 Research

Strong, long and conductive: improved recipe means wet-spun carbon nanotube fibres can compete

Golden rice trial breached ethical guidelines

10 January 2013 News and Analysis

Three Chinese researchers sacked after failing to tell participants parents that rice was genetically modified

Rotaxane mimics ribosome to spin out peptides

10 January 2013 Research

Bio-inspired molecular machine can piece together three amino acids

Antifreeze protein's watery dance

9 January 2013 Research

How the proteins that keep animals alive in -30°C temperatures do their job

Digging up ancient drug formulations

7 January 2013 Research

An analysis of a medicine discovered on a second century BC shipwreck has revealed that the active ingredients are still in use today

How do these edges glow

3 January 2013 Research

Two-dimensional crystals of tungsten disulfide show strong photoluminescence at the edges

Hunted becomes the hunter in DNA ecosystem

3 January 2013 Research

Scientists in Japan create a predator–prey simulation using nothing more than small pieces of DNA

New European universities ranking initiative

21 December 2012 News and Analysis

U-Multirank is intended to be more fair by taking into account a greater number of performance factors

DNA hydrogel has a long memory

21 December 2012 Research

Metamaterial collapses out of water and behaves like a liquid, but pop it back in water and up it springs just like before

Engineered enzyme performs cyclopropanation by carbene transfer

21 December 2012 Research

Directed evolution modifies enzyme to perform synthetically important reactions

Cutting edge chemistry in 2012

20 December 2012 Research

What discoveries caused the biggest buzz in chemistry labs in 2012? Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in this year’s crop of chemical science papers

Home office to help student job seekers

19 December 2012 News and Analysis

Foreign PhD students will get a 12 month grace period to find a job after end of course

Geosmin

14 December 2012 Podcast | Compounds

This week's podcast is about geosmin

Spray and peel forensic sampling

7 December 2012 Research

Lift-off strippable coatings can help analyse surface residues

FOI exemptions for unpublished research

6 December 2012 News and Analysis

UK government agrees to amend the Freedom of Information Act so that universities are not compelled to release unpublished data

Antimalarials should target female parasites

3 December 2012 Research

Study suggests that when it comes to malaria parasites, females are the weakest link

Smartphones as environmental sensors

28 November 2012 News and Analysis

New project will measure personal exposure to pollutants with GPS-enabled smartphones

M&S nano fears for recycled packaging

28 November 2012 News and Analysis

Ambitious recycling commitment by UK grocer could be threatened by fear of nanoinks

Protein coat prepares catalyst for cascades

26 November 2012 Research

Protected metal complexes can team up with enzymes for multistep reactions

Science, evidence and politics

21 November 2012 Review

The geek manifesto

Imperial launches second phenome centre

15 November 2012 News and Analysis

New centre aims to improve diagnoses and inform doctors of the best treatments

Council to defend UK universities launched

9 November 2012 News and Analysis

The great and good launch campaign to call for increased university autonomy

No methane on Mars, says Curiosity

9 November 2012 News and Analysis

Rover takes first sniffs of the Martian atmosphere and doesn't find methane, a signal of possible life

Self-tying trefoil knot

8 November 2012 Research

UK scientists have stumbled across a molecule that ties itself up in knots, echoing the folding of proteins

Acrylamide levels in food still too high, EU says

6 November 2012 News and Analysis

Report finds that changes to cooking practices to tackle the presence of the carcinogen are slow to materialise

Printing out new catalysts

1 November 2012 Research

Inkjet printing has been used for high-throughput generation of metal oxide catalysts

Shining new light on the Ullmann reaction

1 November 2012 Research

Photoinduced C–N coupling provides more information on mechanistic pathways in widely used reaction

Algal biofuel's viability questioned

30 October 2012 News and Analysis

Large scale production of algal biofuels is currently unsustainable, says new report

No more tears tape

30 October 2012 Research

Quick release medical tape could reduce pain and damage in neonatal care

Funding worries in UK higher education

26 October 2012 News and Analysis

Think tank calculates that UK tuition fees reform might not save any money at all

Government adds £200 million to research partnership fund

12 October 2012 News and Analysis

Cash boost to fund designed to improve university-industry collaboration

New superconductors are both ordinary yet odd

4 October 2012 Research

Layered structures of two superconductors points to a different way of creating them

Here comes the science bit

2 October 2012 Feature

Laura Howes investigates the science behind the advertising claims for skincare products

Tuning photonic crystals by blending brush polymers

28 September 2012 Research

Spectrum of photonic crystals made by combining different brush block copolymers

Superhydrophobic knife slices up water

28 September 2012 Research

Phenomenon could be harnessed to separate small samples in a reproducible manner

Liberal Democrats pledge support for UK science

25 September 2012 News and Analysis

Party pass science policy paper unanimously at its conference in Brighton

Battery boost for electric cars

18 September 2012 News and Analysis

UK energy storage R&D Centre announced

TNT for top guns

14 September 2012 Research

It sounds strange but carrying TNT could protect fighter planes from heat seeking missiles

Sponges to mop up marine methane

13 September 2012 Research

Superhydrophobic sponges could suck up ocean methane claim Chinese scientists

Carbon wire a double helix

10 September 2012 Research

Somewhere between a carbon nanotube and a molecular wire, a carbon double helix should sit, say computational chemists

£10 million open access boost

7 September 2012 News and Analysis

UK funding council's stance on open access to be supported with an extra £10 million investment from government

Beating shoe smells with crab shells

3 September 2012 Research

Treating leather with chitosan could help create odour-fighting shoes

Crystals through the looking glass

17 August 2012 Research

A new carbon material shows short range disorder but long range order – the opposite of quasicrystals

Printing stained glass

13 August 2012 Research

Nanodisks of gold and silver can create colour prints with a resolution of 100,000 dpi

Bapineuzunab dropped

9 August 2012 Business

Development for the Alzheimer's treatment stopped after clinical tests

Recovering chemical weapons

9 August 2012 News and Analysis

As stockpiles of chemical weapons are destroyed, the US looks to detecting and destroying buried munitions

Protein coat for gene therapy

8 August 2012 Research

A non-viral capsid has been converted to carry nucleic acids inside

Solar cell meets sunflower

8 August 2012 Research

Boosting solar cell performance using liquid crystal elastomers to mimic sunflowers and track the sun across the sky

European air pollution concerns

7 August 2012 News and Analysis

Emission limits still being exceeded by member states as scientists make further warnings of what's to come

Anti-mosquito paint trialled

3 August 2012 News and Analysis

Insecticide containing wall paint shown to clear infestations

See, blind mice

1 August 2012 Research

Compound makes blind mice see by making cells photosensitive

25 years ago: Refuseniks

31 July 2012 Flashback

Scientists who applied to emigrate from the Soviet Union were refused exit visas and demoted

Calls to match skills to industry

24 July 2012 News and Analysis

Universities are not producing enough science graduates with the skills needed by UK industry, Lord's report claims

Silica coaxed into quasicrystal form

24 July 2012 Research

pH control suggests avenue for the controlled synthesis of other quasiperiodic systems

Redox chemistry behind dragonfly romance

19 July 2012 Research

The red colour that signifies male dragonflies’ sexual maturity is down to a simple reduction

BPA causes freaky fish flirting

18 July 2012 News and Analysis

Controversial chemical bisphenol A can cause sexual barriers to break down between fish species

£3.5 million for UK bioenergy research hub

18 July 2012 News and Analysis

A new research hub to accelerate the use of sustainable bioenergy announced

Research integrity may be linked to UK grants

13 July 2012 News and Analysis

Universities UK concordat on good research conduct suggests that signatories could make commitments part of grant conditions

Möbius molecules with a twist

6 July 2012 Research

Adding a simple molybdenum oxygen linker breaks the symmetry of a simple cluster making a molecular Möbius strip

Fighting plaque with bacterial toothpaste

5 July 2012 Research

Anti-biofouling research could find its way into our toothpaste

Fish with crystal clear vision

1 July 2012 Research

The elephantnose fish improves its sight by making use of photonic crystals

New chief scientific adviser announced

28 June 2012 News and Analysis

Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, has been named as the next UK chief scientific adviser

Fracking given green light by UK report

28 June 2012 News and Analysis

A new government report, written by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, finds fracking safe if managed correctly

Hydrophobic display writes on water

28 June 2012 Research

Two level structural hydrophobicity can be used for reversible data storage

Stretching graphene gives quantum dots

28 June 2012 Research

Straining graphene's lattice can separate its electronic states and turn it into a semiconductor

Coca Cola urged to cut out carcinogen

27 June 2012 News and Analysis

Health concerns over 4-methylimidazole are behind US heath watchdog's petition

Clariant to sell businesses

27 June 2012 Business

Speciality chemicals company launches growth plans

Chemistry nobel laureate William Knowles dies

21 June 2012 News and Analysis

Renowned asymmetric synthesis chemist dies aged 95

94 Elements film project

20 June 2012 News and Analysis

New film project to show how the chemical elements affect our lives

Uranium dating fingers Neanderthals as artists

14 June 2012 Research

Maybe Neanderthal isn't such an insult after all

Nobel prize amount cut

11 June 2012 News and Analysis

Prize amount cut by 20% to protect capital funds

Calls for better tattoo ink regulation

11 June 2012 News and Analysis

As tattooing becomes more mainstream there is a greater need for more control over ink ingredients

CuF computation contradicts textbooks

29 May 2012 Research

Scientists reveal a mistake in inorganic textbooks, and in doing so, discover a new material for photochemical applications

The death of nano-hype?

22 May 2012 News and Analysis

Consumer’s knowledge of nanotechnologies has decreased since a previous study in 2008

3D printed chocolate

22 May 2012 News and Analysis

The world’s first 3D printer for chocolate

Research priorities

22 May 2012 News and Analysis

The heads of the national science academies of 15 countries have urged governments to focus on three ‘global dilemmas’

MOFs meet rotaxanes

22 May 2012 Research

A rotaxane has been used as a linker in the manufacture of a metal organic framework

Norway tests CCS

22 May 2012 News and Analysis

The Norwegian government has finally opened its carbon capture and storage (CCS) test facility at Mongstad

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