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Greener ammonia eliminates hydrogen and metal catalyst

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2019

A new process of creating ammonia from nitrogen and water eliminates the use of hydrogen or solid m…

Graphene centre

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2019

A £60 million graphene research centre has been opened at the University of Manchester following fu…

Day 1 of Lab Innovations

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2019

At the recent Lab Innovations show, we were delighted to curate a 2-day seminar programme. The Insi…

Atomic precision qubits in a silicon crystal

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2019

Quantum scientists in Australia have demonstrated the world’s first 3D atomic-scale quantum chip ar…

Porous material changes structure like a protein

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2019

A newly developed synthesised material can change its structure to carry out specific chemical proc…

£24m from NERC

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jan 2019

Around £24 million in funding has been allocated under the fourth round of National Environment Res…

Cobra Biologics receives £1.5 million for AAV manufacturing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2019

Cobra Biologics, Pall, and Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult have received £1.5 million from Innovate …

European wheat unprepared for climate change

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2019

Current breeding programmes and cultivar selection practices of European wheat crops are unprepared…

Swirling bacterium

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2019

Individual bacteria and biofilms can generate currents strong enough to draw distant nutrients, acc…

Melting ice sheets pump out methane

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2019

The emission of tons of methane from the Greenland Ice Sheet is evidence of a widespread subglacial…

3D-printed biosensors for diabetes patients

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2019

3D-printed biosensors in wearable monitors have picked up glucose signals more effectively than tra…

Brain pacemaker controls optogenetics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2019

A miniature wireless implant could allow more efficient optogenetics in the human brain, according …

Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2019

A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly…

Reindeer maintain circadian rhythm in dark months

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Dec 2018

Reindeer are able to maintain a 24-hour body clock during days of sustained light or darkness, acco…

Self-lighting Christmas trees with synthetic DNA

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Dec 2018

 CRISPR gene editing could be used to develop self-lighting Christmas trees, according to Universit…

Liquid crystal elastomer morphs on-demand

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Dec 2018

Rice University researchers have developed a liquid crystal elastomer that morphs between two diffe…

Wasp venom repurposed as antibiotic drug

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Dec 2018

Variants of a peptide normally found in wasp venom could have applications as an antibiotic drug fo…

UN biodiversity targets give false sense of achievement

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2018

UN biodiversity targets are structured to give a false sense of conservation achievement, according…

Electronic pill connects to external device

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2018

An ingestible sensor is able to release drugs and relay diagnostic information wirelessly to an ext…

Artificial synapse created from nanowire memristor

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Dec 2018

A German team has built an artificial synapse from nanowires that can replicate functions of biolog…