Designer drug and ecstasy substitute, benzylpiperazine, shown to cause long term damage to health

Health Risks of Ecstasy Substitute

Capturing CO2 Directly from the Air
Absorbents that remove CO2 from ultra-dilute gas streams could capture CO2 straight from the air rather than at source

Selenium Does Not Reduce Cancer Risk
A systematic study of healthcare literature reveals there is no truth behind the belief that selenium can prevent cancer

Spectroscopically Enhancing Nanopillars
Bunches of nanopillars formed on gold-coated gallium nitride could improve the detection of biomolecules at low concentration

Chemical Weapon Threat Detector
Reactant that changes color enables detection of nerve-agent mimics and identification of the nerve gas

Bee Venom Helps Detect Explosives
Bee venom helps researchers create detector sensitive enough to detect a single molecule of an explosive such as TNT

Getting to the Core of the Problem
Stereoselective construction of the tricyclic core of marine norditerpinoid brings total synthesis of anticancer compounds closer

Chiral Control Condundrum
Important development in the preparation of functional mesostructures with controlled chirality made by European research team

Healthy Tea and Coffee
New evidence that caffeine is a healthful antioxidant; shedding light on how caffeine interacts with free radicals

New MOF for CO2 Capture
The first rigid metal-organic framework made from a flexible amine shows high potential for CO2 capture and storage