All articles by Jon Cartwright
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ResearchChernobyl disaster mystery solved
A nuclear explosion – not high pressure steam – started the chain reaction of events that destroyed the reactor
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FeatureIn or out?
On 23 June, UK citizens will be asked whether they want to remain in the EU. What will the consequences be for science? Jon Cartwright finds out
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ResearchTouch sensitive super stretchy skin shows promise for soft robots
Material can stretch to nearly five times its original length and emit different colours
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Research‘Chameleon’ camouflages itself with plasmonic skin
Nano-structured display changes colour in response to electric field
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ResearchGraphene sieves deuterium from hydrogen
Atom-thick materials could make heavy water production 10 times cheaper than conventional technologies
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NewsPerovskite boosts silicon solar cell efficiency
Silicon industry will be ‘beating a path to the door’ of inventors, says scientist
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ResearchGraphene band gap heralds new electronics
Higher quality material produces largest band gap ever recorded
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ResearchElectrostatic net kills resistant mosquitoes
A new coating for insecticide-treated mosquito nets could help tackle malaria and dengue fever
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ResearchAFM pictures show bond polarity
Atomic force microscopy technique reveals charge distribution within chemical bonds
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ResearchTouch lights up supercooled material
Weight of a single cell is enough to induce crystallisation in amorphous organic material
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E-paper display draws on child’s toy
For interactivity, scientists take a leaf out of the Magna Doodle book
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ResearchMystery of why ‘structural red’ colours are not found in nature is solved
Discovery may help scientists to produce e-readers with colour screens
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ResearchFlexible solar cell woven into fabric
Solar cell textiles could one day power wearable electronics
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‘Solar’ jet fuel made out of thin air
European scientists produce kerosene from water and carbon dioxide using concentrated sunlight
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Computer memory made from sugar cube
Edible, biodegradable metal–organic framework can form resistive random-access memory
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Vibrations couple light to graphene
Independent teams realise that graphene rippled by sound waves is better at converting light to surface plasmons
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Micromotors clean polluted water
Researchers invent self-propelled devices that degrade organic pollutants
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Quasicrystals discovered in oxides
Discovery in perovskite suggests many more quasicrystals are just waiting to be found
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Graphene targets water treatment and carbon capture
Researchers demonstrate membranes that filter gases, including carbon dioxide
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Maxwell’s demon gets scribbling
Demon can transfer energy from cold to hot reservoir if it simultaneously generates information, researchers claim