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In nature, the skin of cephalopods (animals with tentacles attached to the head) exhibits unparalleled camouflage ability. Their skin contains pigment groups that can sense changes in environmental light conditions and adjust their…

At first sight, it seems the Government might finally have acted to solve the crisis that is bankrupting our High Street community pharmacies.Last week, Amanda Pritchard, the chief executive of NHS England, declared that community…

Britain's worst-performing pharmacies are today named and shamed by a forensic MailOnline audit — with an interactive map allowing you to check if yours is one of the offenders.Our investigation reveals 108 high street chemists were…

Revolution at the pharmacy: Chemists to be given powers to hand out prescriptions for common illnesses under plans to ease pressure on GPsMillions will be able to get prescriptions without seeing a doctor firstBy Jason Groves…

Plastics are everywhere in our daily lives, but not all plastics are created equal - far from it. Take, for instance, polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic used to make soda bottles and clothing fibers. Then there's high-density…

One Friday evening last month, a panicking patient rushed into the Roundhay Pharmacy in Leeds, desperate for a lifesaving heart drug that two other chemists could not provide.The patient's GP had sent him urgently to the Roundhay in the…

Solar power technologies, which use solar cells to convert sunlight to electricity or storable fuels, are gaining momentum in a world looking beyond fossil fuels for its energy needs. The dark bluish solar panels that dot rooftops and open…

They've been called "dream" plastics: polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHAs. Already the basis of a fledgling industry, they're a class of polymers naturally created by living microorganisms, or synthetically produced from biorenewable feedstocks.…

Colorado State University chemists have achieved a new feat in the realm of chemical design and synthesis: They've helped create the first example of a synthetic molecule, with an asymmetric oxygen atom as its centerpiece, that remains…

High street pharmacies are on red alert as chemists run low on stocks of children's painkillers like Calpol and other everyday medicinesBy Stephen Adams Medical Editor Updated: 22:30 GMT, 25 March 2023 <!-- …