New iridium(III) photosensitisers give best activity seen with iron-based water-reduction catalysts for light-driven water splitting

Renewable resources as a feedstock does not guarantee a cleaner fuel

Designer drug and ecstasy substitute, benzylpiperazine, shown to cause long term damage to health

Absorbents that remove CO2 from ultra-dilute gas streams could capture CO2 straight from the air rather than at source

A systematic study of healthcare literature reveals there is no truth behind the belief that selenium can prevent cancer

Bunches of nanopillars formed on gold-coated gallium nitride could improve the detection of biomolecules at low concentration

Reactant that changes color enables detection of nerve-agent mimics and identification of the nerve gas

Bee venom helps researchers create detector sensitive enough to detect a single molecule of an explosive such as TNT

Stereoselective construction of the tricyclic core of marine norditerpinoid brings total synthesis of anticancer compounds closer

Important development in the preparation of functional mesostructures with controlled chirality made by European research team