Image: Jeff Kubina via flickr, CC BY  BY Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Inside Science  (Inside Science) -- Showers fall to Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet or hail. But high in the clouds,…

A new study finds that fructose is bad.  Biologists who fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat found that the ratio of fructose and glucose in high-fructose corn syrup was…

Current carbon capture schemes are not really ready for prime time, plagued by toxicity, corrosiveness and inefficiency, but a team of chemists have invented low-toxicity, highly effective…

When looked at the right way, even cement can be beautiful. This is the crystal structure of tricalcium aluminate, a vital mineral in cement. By Helen Maynard-Casely, Australian Nuclear Science and…

Making scents of it. MIAD Communication Design, CC BY-NC-SA By Simon Cotton, University of Birmingham There are two types of perfume in the world: the fast turnover celebrity perfumes, designed to…

Dietary masochists say you should endure the most difficult brown bread imaginable because 1,000 years ago people had no choice. It's vaguely healthier, we are all told, though if you read more than…

Researchers using a new chemical process have converted the cellulose in sawdust into hydrocarbon chains, building blocks for gasoline.  Cellulose is the main substance in plant matter and is…

Want to improve tomato crop yields without using more fertilizer? Try  verimcompost leachate. That is a soil ameliorant, which is basically a fertilizer but made of an organic liquid produced by…

New findings about carbon deep beneath the Earth's surface suggest it might have influenced the history of life on the planet - and diamonds. There is little understanding of how carbon behaved deep…

For many years, scientists around the world have been intensely interested in bisphenol A (BPA), a common chemical used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins.   But what have we learned…