Science research news - extracts for your class – Page 5
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NewsThank the Nobel prize winners for your mobile phone
Start a lesson with the Nobel prize-winning chemistry involved in lithium-ion batteries
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NewsCatalyst metal recovery adds greener notes to whisky production
Magnetite nanoparticles recover copper waste from whisky manufacturing process
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News2D synthetic clay sheets could create easy to recycle crisp packets
Inorganic nanosheets could lower the carbon footprint of food packaging
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NewsPoly(ionic liquid)s act like taste buds for simple sugars
New system could find use in food monitoring or disease detection
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NewsCarbon nanotubes grown using kitchen chemicals
Cheap compounds found in kitchen cupboards can act as catalysts for making carbon nanotubes
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NewsDirty stirrer bars can act as phantom catalysts
Contaminated stirrer bars could be ruining experiments that are sensitive to tiny amounts of metal catalysts
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NewsWater found in asteroid dust
Water detected in samples from an asteroid’s surface for the first time
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NewsRecycling plastic bottles into jet fuel
Teach your students how plastic waste is being converted into hydrocarbon fuels
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NewsApp quantifies chemicals in thin-layer chromatography
A simple web app converts thin-layer chromatography into a quantitative analytical technique
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NewsGenes that make lemons sour revealed
Don’t end your lesson on a sour note; start it with this starter slide on strong and weak acids
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NewsChemical analysis reveals origin of Pompeian mosaic tiles
Portable spectrometers shed light on the materials used in ancient Roman mosaics
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NewsChop! Chop! Creating useful chemicals from lignin
Breaking the hardy carbon-carbon bond in wood puts new fuels on the horizon
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NewsCooking up a storm with fertiliser
Scientists find a novel way to recycle waste oil – using it as fertiliser
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NewsCatalyst makes liquid fuels from renewable resources
A step closer to producing fuels for trucks and airplanes from biomass
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NewsChemists weave granny and triple trefoil knots
Giant molecules with a carbon backbone by synthetic chemistry
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NewsA new angle on collision theory
Scientists shoot the world’s smallest projectiles – individual molecules – and use them to study how reactions happen