9+ hour, 23+ min ago   (663+ words) Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (253+ words) Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy but later years marred by racist remarks James D Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (724+ words) Miteni factory closed after water pollution scandal but machinery and patents were bought and rebuilt by Indian company The thick green jungle and rust-red hills of Lote, on India's west coast, give way to a small hill where a factory…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (293+ words) Trio honoured for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug deliveryThe Nobel prize in chemistry 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery....

4+ mon, 14+ hour ago   (522+ words) Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour life The likelihood that one of Saturn's moons may harbour life has risen, experts say, after finding an array of carbon-based substances being spewed out…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1117+ words) Exclusive: Analysis of responses shows firms are urging parliamentarians to limit regulation of "forever chemicals" Chemical firms are lobbying MPs not to ban "forever chemicals" in the same way as proposed in the EU, using arguments disputed by scientists and…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (857+ words) Exclusive: 17 sites recorded elevated levels, in some cases thousands of times higher than proposed safe limits, as experts warn of potential risk to drinking water "Alarmingly high" levels of toxic forever chemicals have been detected at English airports " in some…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (267+ words) Each year researchers at UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology mark National Science Week with a photography contest to see who can snap the best image. Here are some of this year's entries Continue reading... - Induced pluripotent stem cells…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (727+ words) Some Salisbury, Maryland, residents say the contaminated water from Perdue Farms's local plant has sickened them Wastewater from an industrial soya bean farm and processor has poisoned a Maryland town's drinking water with Pfas, several lawsuits allege, raising questions about…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (350+ words) My father, Bert Wraith, who has died aged 93, was a metallurgist and expert in the dispersion of gases in metals, a key process in refinement. He developed a method for studying bubbles injected into water that led to the design…...