All Materials Science

Reproducibility crisis
Added: 23 Jul 2019
Inadequate reporting, variability in reagents and the pressure to publish all contribute to the rep…

Symphony in C
Added: 22 Jul 2019
Composed in four movements, Symphony in C explores carbon’s multifaceted characteristics and its ro…

Water droplet
Added: 15 Jul 2019
This amazing image – Crack Patterns I, by Thomas Séon – shows a water droplet falling onto a silico…

Simple glass acts like AI
Added: 10 Jul 2019
A non-electrical, low cost piece of glass replicates a machine’s neural network in order to recogni…

Measurement science centre opens in London
Added: 5 Jul 2019
The Community for Analytical Measurement Science, a membership network for training and innovation …

Glorious celebration of imposters
Added: 17 Jun 2019
Ever wondered, despite all your scientific expertise, if you’ll be uncovered as a fraud? Don’t worr…

Harnessing regional strengths
Added: 17 Jun 2019
From distinctive strengths in transport innovation in the West Midlands to leadership in the life s…

Just play the game
Added: 10 Jun 2019
Games have never been more popular – but can they really help in the teaching of science? You bet y…

Innovation in data collection
Added: 5 Jun 2019
There are many examples of product enhancements using improved design and or different materials to…

Physicists edge closer to superconductivity at room temperature
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 May 2019
An international research team has claimed to have raised the temperature at which superconductivit…

China’s graphene dominance set to subside
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 May 2019
China's leading position in the graphene market may slip, according to a report from IDTechEx Resea…

Brexit bomb
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 May 2019
In the shifting sands of Brexit, there are some things of which we can be sure. And one of them fee…

Sand ‘bubbles’ flow like liquid
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 May 2019
Gravitational instabilities in granular particles of different densities could help us understand h…

Heat waves in graphite
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2019
Heat has been found to behave like sound as it moves through graphite. Using a system of lasers, MI…

2D material improves in space
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2019
Materials consisting of a single layer of atoms could be used in space missions due to their resili…

Hydrogel harvests water from the air
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2019
A new solar powered technology absorbs moisture from the air and returns it as clean water.!--more-…

One man’s trash
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2019
Plastics have become a deeply worrying environmental issue, but it is unlikely that demand will dro…

Spider silk twists like muscle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2019
The presence of an amino acid in spider silk causes its fibres to contract and twist when exposed t…

Graphene capillaries
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2019
Researchers at the National Graphene Institute have made atomic-scale capillaries with the material…

Graphene turned into dough for transport
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jan 2019
Graphene in the form of malleable dough could be more economical to store and transport and less pr…