All articles by Laura Howes – Page 3

Research
Filming phonons

2013-05-23T00:00:00Z

Femtosecond film captures vibrations in gold nanocrystal
Research
Growing a microgarden

2013-05-17T00:00:00Z

Barium carbonate crystals have been coaxed to form nano-flowers by controlling their chemical environment
Research
Plasmonic milk monitor collars spoilt dairy

2013-05-07T00:00:00Z

Stained glass technology to stop you putting gone off milk in your tea
News
Europe to ban controversial pesticides

2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

Two-year EU-wide moratorium on the use of neonicotinoids to be enforced in bid to boost bee health
Research
Carving graphene snowflakes with gases

2013-04-23T00:00:00Z

Modifying a simple etching technique can carve fractal patterns into graphene sheets
Research
Healthy chocolate gets a vodka jelly reboot

2013-04-07T00:00:00Z

Warwick team who reduced the fat in chocolate using fruit juice create new system to add alcohol
Research
Beer filtration could add arsenic

2013-04-07T00:00:00Z

German institution that analyses beer suspects common filtration material could add arsenic to the mix
Research
More clues to Maya blue

2013-04-05T00:00:00Z

Their pigment lasted longer than their culture, but how did Maya chemists make their long lasting blue colour?
Research
Droplet printing assembles soft networks

2013-04-04T00:00:00Z

New 3D printing technique vastly scales up droplet networks, opening up new potential applications from soft robotics to drug delivery
News
Funding boost for PhDs

2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

EPSRC to invest £84.2 million in postgraduate training through doctoral training grants
News
UK's research shortfall reduced

2013-03-20T00:00:00Z

Cut in research capital reduced by additional commitments but more needed, campaign group warns
News
£4.4m donation gives RI breathing room

2013-03-20T00:00:00Z

Anonymous donation to the Royal Institution clears debts but does not yet secure the organisation’s future
Research
New definition for supramolecular chemistry

2013-03-08T00:00:00Z

In supramolecular chemistry entropy rules over enthalpy, say Mexican scientists,
News
New publishing models test the water

2013-02-21T00:00:00Z

Several new services have launched that deviate from the current publishing models
News
UK-India projects launched

2013-02-20T00:00:00Z

Scholarships and research links announced as part of prime minister’s visit to India
Research
Biosynthesis of methylmercury discovered

2013-02-12T00:00:00Z

Route from inorganic to organic mercury isolated
Research
Soft robots take a leap forward

2013-02-11T00:00:00Z

Pneumatically powered soft robots can now be powered by combustion, making their movements faster
Podcast
Prussian blue

2013-01-30T00:00:00Z

Laura Howes looks back to a time when feeling blue was a good thing - and wearing it was ‘bling’
News
Five green chemical feedstock projects launched

2013-01-29T00:00:00Z

New projects will investigate how feedstock chemicals can be produced without fossil fuels
Research
Paper crane to carbon electrode

2013-01-29T00:00:00Z

Group use origami to demonstrate their new electrode printing technique