Chemistry

• Graphic special: Flights of green fancy

  Air travel shows no sign of losing its allure but its environmental impact is not going to go away. Katharine Sanderson looks at some of the ways that scientists and engineers hope to reduce the carbon wing-print of aircraft.

  14 May 2008

• The hot new nanotech: testing chillies

  Nanotubes could give cooks a cheap device to rate their chillies.

  12 May 2008

• Don't turn your nose up at mouse urine

  Urinary proteins are key to ultra-sensitive artificial noses.

  9 May 2008

• Chemistry: Designer debacle

  A high-profile scientist, a graduate student and two major retractions. Erika Check Hayden reports on a case that has rocked the chemistry community.

  9 May 2008

• Chemists spin a web of data

  Chemspider website provides free information on millions of molecules.

  7 May 2008

• Brittlestars can survive acid oceans

  But the biological cost of maintaining their skeletons may be too high.

  7 May 2008

• Cell biology: The cellular hullabaloo

  The inner life of a cell is noisy. Helen Pearson discovers how the resulting randomness makes life more challenging #20; and richer.

  7 May 2008

• 'Ocean deserts' are growing

  Low-oxygen regions have expanded over the past half-century.

  1 May 2008

• The heaviest element yet?

  Researchers claim to have seen an element with an atomic number of 122, but some are sceptical.

  1 May 2008

• 'Chemical compass' created

  Lab work proves reactions can be influenced by the Earth's weak magnetic field.

  30 April 2008