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Unlocking innovation in austere times

April 14, 2015
In the current climate of tightening budgets and complex relationships between service providers and police forces – just how can forensic scientists get their innovations to the market place? Here,...

A peak below the surface…

April 13, 2015
Scientists have designed a technique for recovering destroyed serial numbers on metal objects. A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado used a scanning electron...

The print revolution

April 2, 2015
Nanoparticles could well be the future of fingermark detection. Not only do they promise sensitivity and selectivity, but they have also furthered our understanding of the fundamentals behind fingerprint detection

Seeing real time bond formation

March 25, 2015
Researchers have visualised real time bond formation in an entire chemical reaction. Chemists at the Institute for Basic Science for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions in South Korea used X-ray free-electron...

New molecule to slow Parkinson’s

March 23, 2015
Scientists have designed a peptide that can slow down brain cell damage associated with Parkinson disease. A research team at the University of Bath used a peptide that can bind...

Chemistry in the perfect coffee

March 18, 2015
Computational chemistry and coffee; not – you might imagine – natural bedfellows. But Theoretical and Computational Chemist Christopher Hendon begs to differ… You were at the World Barista Championships 2014...

Chemical reactions in a trillionth of a second

March 13, 2015
Scientists have developed a method that allows observation of chemical reactions on a trillionth of a second timescale. Researchers at the University of Bristol combined ultrafast spectroscopy and computer simulations...

The rise of new ozone-damaging gases

March 9, 2015
Short lived gases - previously thought to have little effect on the environment - can contribute to ozone depletion and influence climate.A team of researchers at Leeds’ University School of...

The big squeeze

March 3, 2015
The physical properties of proteins, so vital for cellular function, are intimately linked to the cellular environment – a very crowded place indeed. But has this relationship been neglected in...

The wonder stuff – How peptide hydrogels could change the face of biomedicine

January 20, 2015
With a list of characteristics and applications long enough to make most bioengineers take notice, ultrashort peptide hydrogels are fast becoming the toast of biomedicine. Here, a team from Institute...

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