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  • A photo of four small poppers bottles. Their colourful plastic wrappers advertise them as room odourisers or aroma with brand names such as Liquid Gold, Bolt and Purple Haze
    News

    Explainer: The science of alkyl nitrites aka poppers

    2021-09-16T13:30:00Z

    From their origins as 19th century angina treatment to becoming an important part of gay subculture, these recreational drugs exist in a legal limbo

  • Infant with Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Jaundice.
    Podcast

    Bilirubin

    2018-08-10T15:20:00Z

    Kat Arney investigates the chemicals responsible for giving bruises their hue and colouring your poo

  • A bag of freshly donated blood
    Podcast

    Porphyrins

    2017-02-08T18:06:00Z

    Brian Clegg examines the colourful compounds that no red-blooded creature can do without: Porphyrins