All articles by Simon Hadlington – Page 21
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Electronics go on a bender
New ways to deliver functioning electronic systems onto flexible substrates
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Keep on the grass
Mixed grasses grown on agriculturally poor soils could provide carbon-negative biofuel
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Getting the dope on a single atom of dopant
The quantum state of a single atom of dopant in a silicon semiconductor has been measured.
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Unfolding peptide watched in real time
Infrared spectroscopy captures processes taking mere millionths of a millionth of a second
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Gene-reading enzyme catapulted by scrunch power
RNA polymerase is spring-loaded by scrunched DNA to help it on its way along each gene
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New natural painkiller discovered
A short peptide isolated from human saliva has potentially powerful painkilling properties
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Invisibility cloak is latest amazing 'metamaterial'
Chemists beware - the metamaterialists are making startling progress.
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Red oxygen structure revealed
Researchers have cracked the crystalline structure of an enigmatic phase of solid oxygen arising when the molecule is subjected to high pressure.
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System for generating smallest ever biopolymer microcapsules
Microfluidic approach creates smallest known biopolymer capsules.
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Bacteria put new spin on micromotors
The first micromechanical device to integrate inorganic materials with living bacteria.
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Destroying the poisons of war
It is almost a decade since the Chemical Weapons Convention came into force but many signatories are failing to meet targets. Simon Hadlington investigates.
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Laser light cast on quantum evolution
Scientists reveal how genetic algorithms help lasers selectively cleave chemical bonds
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Spin doctors find new way to make skin scaffold
UK researchers have developed a new type of polymer scaffold support for growing cultured human skin cells.
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Natural metabolism of fluorine
Researchers have isolated a cluster of bacterial genes responsible for the biochemical processing of fluorine.
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The attraction of gold for gold
Weak gold-gold interactions in organic complexes affect the systems' emission spectra and could lead to a new type of sensor.
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'Sticky trees' glue molecules to proteins
Researchers have developed a chemical 'glue' that binds molecules to proteins without compromising protein function.
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Deciphering hydrogen tunnelling in enzymes
UK researchers have thrown important new light on the phenomenon of hydrogen tunnelling in biological catalysts
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New way to produce heavy rare earth metals
Chemists in China have demonstrated an electrochemical method to produce heavy rare earth metals from their oxides.