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Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Dec 2016

The Christmas Lectures have been a key part of the Royal Institution’s science outreach since 1825.…

Scientists calculate future benefits of electric vehicles

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2016

Electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells are more likely to be enviro…

Accidental greenhouse gas to fuel process discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Oct 2016

Scientists have accidentally discovered a way to convert carbon dioxide solution to ethanol.

Industrial Fellowships for promising researchers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2016

The Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 has awarded 10 early-career engineers and scientists…

World’s smallest machines scoop Chemistry Nobel

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2016

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart a…

US scientists observe chemical reaction for the first time

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Oct 2016

Scientists have used a specific type of X-ray to study a never-seen-before chemical reaction.

Library of pharma compounds open for researchers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Sep 2016

In conjunction with the Medical Research Council, six global drug companies have released 47 deprio…

Scientists achieve breakthrough in graphene production

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2016

Chemists in Germany have created, for the first time, defect-free graphene from graphite.

Lateral solar cells promise bright future

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Aug 2016

A team of US engineers have created high performance, micro-scale solar cells that could power a wi…

Nanoparticles

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2016

Transmission electron microscopy image showing self-assembled diblock copolymer nanoparticles.

Photosynthesis recreated in the lab

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jul 2016

Swiss chemists have taken a step closer to generating energy from sunlight, by reproducing a crucia…

Artificial nose capable of detecting nerve gas created

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2016

An electronic ‘nose’ has been created by scientists in Belgium to detect molecules found in pestici…

Nanotechnology boosts oil recovery chances

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jul 2016

A new method utilising nanoparticle-containing solutions that allow for enhanced recovery of oil at…

Nanoparticle embedding method created

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jul 2016

Tools such as ‘smart display’ 3D glasses or remote radiation sensors could be more easily created a…

Material discovered to lower nuclear fuel recycling costs

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2016

A computer model has helped scientists find a new material that could help nuclear fuel recycling b…

IUPAC names new elements

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2016

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has proposed the names for four recently disc…

Faster heart attack detection device launched

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jun 2016

A new device has been released to inform clinicians if a patient has suffered a heart attack within…

Lasers used to create new compounds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 May 2016

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have used lasers to manipulate atoms in hy…

Upgraded spectrometer able to analyse outer space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 May 2016

A spectrometer has had its capabilities extended to identify large, complex molecular structures fo…

Chef de science

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2016

Professor Peter Barnham speaks on the science of molecular gastronomy.