Chemistry and Chemical Engineering News

Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel

CSIRO scientist Dr Tara Sutherland and her team have achieved another important milestone in the international quest to artificially produce insect silk.

Atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females

Not every object is food to a Venus flytrap. Like the carnivorous plant, a new material developed at Northwestern University permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion cesium, and not other harmless ions like sodium.

Ancient Egyptian cosmetics: 'Magical' makeup may have been medicine for eye disease

A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule.

Boston University biomedical engineers have devised a method for making future genome sequencing faster and cheaper by dramatically reducing the amount of DNA required,

An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians, the Han dynasty in China, Mayan cultures the creation of a near-perfect blue pigment.

Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world's thinking on what light is capable of.

NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.