All articles by Laura Howes – Page 3
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Growing a microgarden
Barium carbonate crystals have been coaxed to form nano-flowers by controlling their chemical environment
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Plasmonic milk monitor collars spoilt dairy
Stained glass technology to stop you putting gone off milk in your tea
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NewsEurope to ban controversial pesticides
Two-year EU-wide moratorium on the use of neonicotinoids to be enforced in bid to boost bee health
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Carving graphene snowflakes with gases
Modifying a simple etching technique can carve fractal patterns into graphene sheets
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Healthy chocolate gets a vodka jelly reboot
Warwick team who reduced the fat in chocolate using fruit juice create new system to add alcohol
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Beer filtration could add arsenic
German institution that analyses beer suspects common filtration material could add arsenic to the mix
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More clues to Maya blue
Their pigment lasted longer than their culture, but how did Maya chemists make their long lasting blue colour?
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ResearchDroplet printing assembles soft networks
New 3D printing technique vastly scales up droplet networks, opening up new potential applications from soft robotics to drug delivery
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Funding boost for PhDs
EPSRC to invest £84.2 million in postgraduate training through doctoral training grants
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UK's research shortfall reduced
Cut in research capital reduced by additional commitments but more needed, campaign group warns
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£4.4m donation gives RI breathing room
Anonymous donation to the Royal Institution clears debts but does not yet secure the organisation’s future
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New definition for supramolecular chemistry
In supramolecular chemistry entropy rules over enthalpy, say Mexican scientists,
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New publishing models test the water
Several new services have launched that deviate from the current publishing models
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UK-India projects launched
Scholarships and research links announced as part of prime minister’s visit to India
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ResearchSoft robots take a leap forward
Pneumatically powered soft robots can now be powered by combustion, making their movements faster
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PodcastPrussian blue
Laura Howes looks back to a time when feeling blue was a good thing - and wearing it was ‘bling’
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Five green chemical feedstock projects launched
New projects will investigate how feedstock chemicals can be produced without fossil fuels
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Paper crane to carbon electrode
Group use origami to demonstrate their new electrode printing technique