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…