The EPA must act swiftly to evaluate the possible health risks of nanotechnology A decade ago the great worry about nanotechnology was that it could quite literally destroy the planet. As Su... Read more
What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply printing out tissue and organs. Now scientists have further refined the technology and... Read more
“The extreme weather we have had in recent years is but one example of the highly complex, global science-based challenges we are now living with” Chemists who are members of the American Ch... Read more
Some of the world’s largest banks plan to cut credit for companies that rely on but fail to value forests, water and other natural resources It is not easy to put a value... Read more
“The chip enables us to grow our own human cells and observe a drug’s effect on them in their natural environment,” On a rectangular chip slightly smaller than a person’s finger, two scienti... Read more
Cost-effective cure for ‘concrete cancer’? ‘Self-healing’ concrete is being developed by researchers at Northumbria University which could see cracks in concrete buildings become a thing of... Read more