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Podiatry experts hit high demand

April 17, 2015
The demand for forensic podiatry expertise has increased significantly since the 1990s.  The University of Huddersfield’s Professor Wesley Vernon – one of the world’s leading forensic podiatrists – is now...

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...

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...

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...

Nobel round-up

October 8, 2014
In case you missed them, here is Laboratory News’ round-up of who won what in this year’s Nobel Prize announcements. Each prize is worth 8 million SEK (£0.7 million), and...

Chemistry Prize for microscopy technique

October 8, 2014
After a short delay, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner for the...

Star-shaped molecule created after 25 year effort

October 2, 2014
A complex star-shaped molecule of interlocking rings has been created at the University of Manchester following a quarter of a century of research. The molecule, dubbed the Star of David,...

Superheavy element pairing probes Einstein’s relativity

September 30, 2014
Chemists probing the predictive power of trends in the Periodic Table have successfully established a chemical bond between a superheavy element and a carbon atom. The pairing, between seaborgium and...

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