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The world faces the fundamental problems of increasing waste and decreasing resources as it tries to cope with the increasing consumption of a growing population.  It is clear that these challenges can only be met through a fundamentally different a....

Eighteenth-century chemists could gain useful income and patronage as advisors to industry – and some of the wealthiest and most influential industrialists were brewers. Making chemical knowledge credible to this audience, however, was not always e....

A laboratory demonstration of Carbon Dioxide's effect of global warming.

Professor Monique Simmonds talks about the use of plants and fungi as sources of sustainably harvested medicines

The CRPGL group is a newly formed lab in Luxembourg. Within the project their role is to start looking at 'scale up', plasma treatment at larger scales than is possible in the other labs, coupled with a battery of different sample testing techniques.

In thistalk Harry Kroto explains that molecules have structures that are every bit as real in the mind of the chemists who create them, as are the edifices of brick, steel and concrete designed by architects and built by engineers.

A brief history of carbon-60 and its developments into useful materials. How can chemistry help move us towards a more sustainable existence.

In this interview Sherwood Rowland talks about Ozone depletion and the effect of CFCs on Ozone and Global Warming (Greenhouse Warming where infrared radiation is trapped). He explains the chemistry of Ozone depletion and the history of what led to th....

Mitchell Herring presents on battery technology from Volta to the 21st century.

A comparison of bio-fuels and solar energy. Examples include algae-based oil and solar panels.

Miles Bradshaw presents on the current status and future of biofuel technology.