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Biomaterials Science to become official journal of European Society for Biomaterials in new partnership
We are partnering with the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) in a collaboration that will see our journal, Biomaterials Science, become the offi
28 September 2017
Good Practical Science report aims to transform practical science education
Our president launched a new report for the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, outlining ten benchmarks to transform practical science education in England
26 September 2017
Celebrating 100 years of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
On 24–28 July, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) held its Centenary Congress, in honour of its 100th anniversary. It was attended by seve
25 September 2017
Can virtual reality make chemistry the coolest school subject?
Jonas Boström, whose day job is in computational chemistry at AstraZeneca, along with former student Magnus Norrby, recently started a company called
08 September 2017
Celebrating 200 years of selenium research
The element selenium was discovered 200 years ago. We spoke to the editors of a new book entitled “Organoselenium Compounds in Biology and Medicine”,
14 August 2017
A new way to remove BPA from water
An international team of scientists have designed a water treatment system that can remove the harmful chemical BPA from water with 99% effectiveness
03 August 2017
Science outreach goes multilingual
Supported by our inclusion and diversity fund, researchers from the University of Manchester engaged 80 youngsters with some multilingual science outr
14 July 2017
Where chemistry meets maths meets art
Geoffrey Boocock spent his Time4Chem last year creatively designing arithmetical ‘magic’ squares in celebration of our 175th anniversary after attendi
10 July 2017
Soap and suds in Donaghmore
Dr Dermot Hanna from our Northern Ireland Local Section presented a talk on the ‘story of soap’ to the Donaghmore Historical Society
26 June 2017