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Ultracold molecules hint at quantum behaviour

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jun 2015

By achieving the lowest temperature ever recorded, scientists have managed to create ultracold mole…

Seeing real time bond formation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2015

Researchers have visualised real time bond formation in an entire chemical reaction.!--more--

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New molecule to slow Parkinson’s

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2015

Scientists have designed a peptide that can slow down brain cell damage associated with Parkinson d…

Chemical reactions in a trillionth of a second

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2015

Scientists have developed a method that allows observation of chemical reactions on a trillionth of…

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 …

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…

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…