All Chemistry
Snapshot of photosynthesis reveals process
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jul 2014
Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation have enabled researchers to understand how …
DNA replication fork visualised
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2014
An American team have built the first model to decipher what goes on at the ‘replication fork’ duri…
Chemical sensor on a chip
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014
Infrared laser beams are ideal for analysing liquids and gases, and scientists in Vienna have minia…
Celebrating Great British Science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jun 2014
Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution, has nominated Faraday’s …
Dr Valery Nesvizhevsky on his serendipitous discovery
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 May 2014
Researchers at the Institut Laue Langevin recently made a serendipitous discovery while reviewing 6…
Clean catalyst for methanol production
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 May 2014
A potentially clean, low-cost way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol while reducing harmful by…
Laser shows promise for solar cell efficiency
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Apr 2014
Solar cells based on perovskite not only excel at absorbing light but at emitting it too, turning t…
Refrigerant replacement highly toxic on combustion
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Apr 2014
EU regulations suggest refrigerants in car air conditioning systems are replaced with a more enviro…
Fred Turner on his homebuilt PCR machine
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Apr 2014
Fred Turner, an undergraduate studying biochemistry at the University of Oxford was recently listed…
Borophene competition to graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2014
Chemists have produced the first experimental evidence of the existence of borophene – a single-ato…
3D printing boost from cheap titanium powder
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jan 2014
The high cost of titanium powder has prohibited its use in 3D printing – with plastics being the pr…
‘Swiss army knife’ secret of RNA polymerase I
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2013
The 3-dimensional structure of a molecular machine scientists have likened to the Swiss army knife …
Unexpected boron coupling reaction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2013
Two positively charged compounds of boron have been joined to form a chain of four boron atoms in a…
Science Nobels awarded
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Nov 2013
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging fro…
Organic solar cells in a spin
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2013
Manipulating the ‘spin’ of electrons in organic solar cells can drastically improve their performan…
Primordial soup secret revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2013
Scientists may have cracked a common conundrum about how objects from space could have kindled life…
Spray-painting solar cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2013
University of Sheffield researchers have made solar cells using a spray painting-like process. The …
A pleasant aroma relies on good vibrations
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Mar 2013
The way molecules vibrate, rather than their shape is responsible for giving substances their chara…
“Wandering meatloaf” snail’s teeth may improve solar cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2013
Materials Science
The teeth of a marine snail can be used to create less expensive, more efficient n…
Water’s pyramid shape confirmed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have confirmed the original model of the m…