Hydrocarbons

Artist's impression of a protoplanetary disk. Credit: ESA

The Webb Space Telescope finds an abundance of carbon molecules around a young star

"It's amazing that we can detect and quantify the amount of molecules we know very well on Earth, like benzene, which is actually more than 600 light-years away," said one of the authors of the paper that appeared.
New materials are created by fixing them to a disk and then examining them to determine their properties. [Courtesy of Caltech]

New materials that convert water into fuel

Professor Graham Hutchings FRS

Innovative use of a gold catalyst

Image of Escherichia coli under a scanning electron microscope

Biofuel from bacteria

Sugar cubes - from Wikipedia

A new method for the preparation of libraries of important sugars