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Electron diffraction: A technique suggesting radically new things

Added: 11 Jan 2022

Crystallography mainly relies on diffraction techniques and the most recent of them, electron diffr…

Algae – a novel solution to the climate crisis?

Added: 29 Sep 2021

By 2050, the world will need to produce 70% more food than in 2005, and will need 50% more fresh wa…

Making a clean break from plastics

Added: 16 Jul 2021

Plastic is no longer fantastic. Nadine Bellamy-Thomas looks at how laboratories are adopting more s…

Some like it hot - our May/June issue cover story on thermophiles as biotechnological targets

Added: 28 Apr 2021

Thermophiles are fascinating microorganisms that include fungi, algae, cyanobacteria, and protozoa.…

COVID waste is killing animals - how to pick COVID PPE litter safely

Added: 26 Mar 2021

How many times have you stepped over someone else's lost or discarded facemask crushed in the dirt …

Pandemic prevention: how to fireproof our future - #PandemicsReport

Added: 25 Feb 2021

As we embrace 2021 and the opportunity for a fresh perspective, Matthew Partridge reviews the indep…

Climate change causes in question - weather system interference may displace carbon emissions as key factor

Added: 13 Jan 2021

The green economy may be in trouble as new research - described by experts as a 'meteoroligical tou…

The truth about turtles

Sarah Lawton | Added: 20 Jul 2020

A research team from Florida State University (FSU) has discovered a world of microscopic life on t…

The bigger the better

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 4 Mar 2019

A UK-wide prohibition on the use of plastic microbeads in some cosmetic and personal care products …

Down on the farm

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 28 Feb 2019

The complex balance of species which live in and around farmland are vulnerable to climate change –…

A very complex disturbance

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 14 Jan 2019

Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actual…

Understanding battleground earth

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 Nov 2018

Falk Hildebrand takes through the first global study of the soil microbiome. This incredible intern…

The fat of the land

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 19 Oct 2018

Evidence for environmental chemicals as disruptors of metabolism is mounting ­– now a new study sug…

Hey big spender…

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Jun 2018

Given the clear link between climate change and violent human conflict isn’t it obvious we should s…

A pocket full of pretty green

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 18 Apr 2018

Cleaning up industrial heavy metal pollution, revitalising polluted waterways and a new source of g…

Is there a risk in being a beach bum?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 19 Mar 2018

A recent study looking at the gut bacteria of surfers has given good reason for concern over the po…

Best of both worlds

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Jan 2018

As we spew increasingly varied chemicals into the environment, the ability to detect contaminants i…

Taming Tempests

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 Sep 2017

Dr Qin Jim Chen explains how hurricane modelling enables the prediction of natural phenomena that c…

Is this the death of formaldehyde?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 27 Sep 2016

Formaldehyde is a common lab chemical. Widely known for its use in embalming, it is also used as a …

The Golden Age of Green Chemistry

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 2 Jun 2016

As more and more laboratories and companies embrace the principles of green chemistry, chemists and…