The president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA), Julia Higgins, has called for scientists to take responsibility for their actions.
In an effort to engage the public, and simply because they enjoy it, chemists are turning to the arts to simplify scientific language. But sometimes the language itself can be stim...
Chemists at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, US, have developed a nano-sized dendrimer-based MRI agent they say could reduce the trauma associated with breast canc...
With all that extra atmospheric CO2 being soaked up by the sea, the Royal Society has embarked on a study to find out what is currently known about the possible effects of a conseq...
The RSC has launched a new website for crystal engineers that will provide a central base for researchers worldwide and give them access to an array of services.
Anyone who has ever had a disastrous day in the lab, set fire to the bench, accidentally sniffed too hard over a fuming conical flask, you are now in good company.
Piersandro Pallavicini and colleagues at the University of Pavia, Italy, have developed a system for fluorescence signalling within a pH range rather than at a specific pH value.
By using artificial ion channels based on gramicidin, a bacterial toxin, scientists from Canada and Germany are quite literally illuminating nerve cell processes.
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