Nanotechnologists think the next 25 years will bring advances in quantum computing, novel materials and medicine ...

A new mesoporous polymer combines optical transparency higher than glass with thermal conductivity lower than air. The ...

The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet ...

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The proposed designs were then synthesised and tested in the lab where they achieved enzymatic activities close to those ...

Discovery of building materials abandoned at construction site reveals secrets of ancient concrete that can set underwater ...

Celebrations are important, even when redundancies and funding cuts mean many chemists aren't in the festive mood ...

While mostly mined in sub-Saharan Africa, south east Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, gold is often refined at hubs ...

A decade in the making, the African Medicines Agency (AMA) – a new regulatory agency intended to cover the entire continent – ...

The US solicitor general, who represents the federal government before the US Supreme Court, has weighed in on the side of ...

Dangled carrot of formic acid fuel drives engineered bacteria to make cephalopod dye at yields a thousand times higher than ...

An electron microscopy image of the silk of the Australian net-caster spider, Asianopis subrufa, has won top prize in the ...