All Chemistry

Nobel round-up
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014
In case you missed them, here is Laboratory News’ round-up of who won what in this year’s Nobel Pri…

Chemistry Prize for microscopy technique
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014
After a short delay, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chem…

Star-shaped molecule created after 25 year effort
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Oct 2014
A complex star-shaped molecule of interlocking rings has been created at the University of Manchest…

Superheavy element pairing probes Einstein’s relativity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Sep 2014
Chemists probing the predictive power of trends in the Periodic Table have successfully established…

Splitting water based on nuclear spin
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2014
Separation of water based on the nuclear spin of individual molecules has been made possible thanks…

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…