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Can the plastics industry be 100% sustainable? This study thinks so

Lots of recycling, combined with the use of CO2 from the air and biomass, could make a completely sustainable plastics industry a reality, according to a new study.

Here's how fertilizer could be produced more sustainably

Researchers have shown how nitrogen fertilizer could be produced more sustainably.

This zero-energy device collects water from the air

Researchers have developed a condenser for countries where water is in short supply.

This band is storing their best-selling album in DNA 

An album by trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack is headed for near-eternal storage in DNA molecules within tiny glass beads.

This gene sequencing method can track how the immune system produces antibodies

Researchers in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich in Basel have developed a new method that allows them to record the vast range of antibodies in an indivi...

Should we rethink our views of ageing and dementia?

We age because the cells in our bodies begin to malfunction over the years. This is the general view that scientists hold of the ageing process. For example, in older people the cells’ in...

Could this device identify the risk of a premature birth?

How methanol became a crude competitor

Do intelligent people’s brains work more efficiently?

A new view of the powerhouse of our cells

How researchers can analyse the causes of cancer

What’s causing a nitrogen build-up in the oceans?

Does this prove one of Einstein’s theories?

A new way of delivering targeted drugs

A new class of antibiotic