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2 months ago | 
sciencefocus.com | Hayley M Bennett
More than half of men and millions of women are affected by hair loss. It causes low self-esteem in some and anxiety in others. Thankfully, scientists around the world are getting to the roots of the problem with pioneering new treatments.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Hayley M Bennett
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
sciencefocus.com | Hayley M Bennett
Our cognitive abilities – thinking abilities that include memory, language and attention – deteriorate with age and scientists haven’t yet found a way to stop this decline. There are things you can do to slow it down, however, and recent scientific studies suggest that having a pet might be one of them. undefinedFor instance, in one 2022 study, US researchers tested the cognitive abilities of 1,369 older people who had health insurance policies with Medicare over the course of six years.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
chemistryworld.com | Hayley M Bennett
Scientists and entrepreneurs are sowing the seeds for a new kind of industry. Hayley Bennett explores the buzz around the marine ‘biorefinery’ business – and what might hold it back
Biochemist Charlie Bavington is on the hunt for somewhere to put a lot of seaweed. His company, Oceanium, plans to take 2000 tonnes of farmed kelp per year and turn it into nutraceuticals, ingredients for food and cosmetics, and more besides.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Hayley M Bennett
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
sciencefocus.com | Hayley M Bennett
Slugs and snails use a ‘ventral foot’ – a long, slime-covered muscle on the underside of their bodies – to move at speeds of around one metre per hour (three feet per hour). The foot, or muscle, ripples to send the animal sliding over its own slime. This system is inherently quite slow and is limited by their rate of slime production.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
edu.rsc.org | Hayley M Bennett
Take a deep breath and delve into the chemical culprits behind obnoxious odoursEver opened a backpack you haven’t used all summer to be hit by a face-scrunchingly bad smell? We’ve all done it. The stench usually emanates from a forgotten sandwich or piece of fruit that has been slowly rotting at the bottom of the bag.
If you think about it, the smells given off by rotten foods are useful, because they warn us not to eat things that will make us ill.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
edu.rsc.org | Hayley M Bennett
Take a deep breath and delve into the chemical culprits behind obnoxious odoursEver opened a backpack you haven’t used all summer to be hit by a face-scrunchingly bad smell? We’ve all done it. The stench usually emanates from a forgotten sandwich or piece of fruit that has been slowly rotting at the bottom of the bag.
If you think about it, the smells given off by rotten foods are useful, because they warn us not to eat things that will make us ill.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
chemistryworld.com | Hayley M Bennett
The fires of traditional African iron smelters burned out a century ago and now the researchers dedicated to uncovering their stories are disappearing from the continent too, writes Hayley Bennett
For more than a decade, Tanzanian archaeologist Edwinus Lyaya has been searching for traces of an African technology – and tradition – that he worries is ‘disappearing without notice’.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
edu.rsc.org | Hayley M Bennett |Jo Haywood |Morag Easson |Kit Chapman
When chlorophyll breaks down, leaves reveal their inner chemistryEvery autumn, nature swaps its coat of green for an ensemble of red, yellow, orange and brown. Fashion followers take inspiration from this seasonal shift. Preschoolers seek out the multicoloured leaves for crafts.
