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Filming phonons

23 May 2013 Research

Femtosecond film captures vibrations in gold nanocrystal

Growing a microgarden

17 May 2013 Research

Barium carbonate crystals have been coaxed to form nano-flowers by controlling their chemical environment

Plasmonic milk monitor collars spoilt dairy

7 May 2013 Research

Stained glass technology to stop you putting gone off milk in your tea

Europe to ban controversial pesticides

30 April 2013 News and Analysis

Two-year EU-wide moratorium on the use of neonicotinoids to be enforced in bid to boost bee health

Carving graphene snowflakes with gases

23 April 2013 Research

Modifying a simple etching technique can carve fractal patterns into graphene sheets

Healthy chocolate gets a vodka jelly reboot

7 April 2013 Research

Warwick team who reduced the fat in chocolate using fruit juice create new system to add alcohol

Beer filtration could add arsenic

7 April 2013 Research

German institution that analyses beer suspects common filtration material could add arsenic to the mix

More clues to Maya blue

5 April 2013 Research

Their pigment lasted longer than their culture, but how did Maya chemists make their long lasting blue colour?

Droplet printing assembles soft networks

4 April 2013 Research

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

Funding boost for PhDs

2 April 2013 News and Analysis

EPSRC to invest £84.2 million in postgraduate training through doctoral training grants

£4.4m donation gives RI breathing room

20 March 2013 News and Analysis

Anonymous donation to the Royal Institution clears debts but does not yet secure the organisation's future

UK's research shortfall reduced

20 March 2013 News and Analysis

Cut in research capital reduced by additional commitments but more needed, campaign group warns

New definition for supramolecular chemistry

8 March 2013 Research

In supramolecular chemistry entropy rules over enthalpy, say Mexican scientists,

New publishing models test the water

21 February 2013 News and Analysis

Several new services have launched that deviate from the current publishing models

UK-India projects launched

20 February 2013 News and Analysis

Scholarships and research links announced as part of prime minister's visit to India

Biosynthesis of methylmercury discovered

12 February 2013 Research

Route from inorganic to organic mercury isolated

Soft robots take a leap forward

11 February 2013 Research

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

Prussian blue

30 January 2013 Podcast | Compounds

Laura Howes looks back to a time when feeling blue was a good thing - and wearing it was 'bling'

Five green chemical feedstock projects launched

29 January 2013 News and Analysis

New projects will investigate how feedstock chemicals can be produced without fossil fuels

Paper crane to carbon electrode

29 January 2013 Research

Group use origami to demonstrate their new electrode printing technique

Switchable catenane ready for data storage

25 January 2013 Research

A highly unusual multi-radical structure that has up to four unpaired electrons, yet remains stable, could find uses in batteries and computer memory

Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA?

24 January 2013 Research

Cambridge scientists turn DNA into a data storage medium and use it to store all of Shakespeare's sonnets

Post-publication peer review blog launches

22 January 2013 News and Analysis

Chemists hope forum will be a place where published synthetic methods are scrutinised and lab checks are crowd sourced

Nanotube fibre production in a spin

11 January 2013 Research

Strong, long and conductive: improved recipe means wet-spun carbon nanotube fibres can compete

Golden rice trial breached ethical guidelines

10 January 2013 News and Analysis

Three Chinese researchers sacked after failing to tell participants parents that rice was genetically modified