I18 Science Highlights

Arsenic and Artistry: Uncovering Secrets in Pietro Lorenzetti's Paintings Nov 3, 2023

Synchrotron studies highlight the toxic legacy of ground-breaking 14th century art techniques

Serpentinization Offers Clues to the Early History of Mars Jun 14, 2023

Studying how water changes iron-rich rocks on Earth can help us understand Mars, habitability, and even the origins of life

Do seed shrimps hold the secret to scratch resistant screens? Jun 8, 2022

Looking to the world’s oceans for next generation materials

Protecting potatoes from blight Mar 22, 2022

Understanding the plant pathogen responsible for the Irish potato blight and is still a problem in modern agriculture

Microfocus spectroscopy shows how Irish kelp adsorbs metal contaminants from wastewater Dec 3, 2021

Helping to clean up polluted water.

Black rain: how Icelandic dust affects the global climate Feb 16, 2021

Researchers show Icelandic dust is significantly different to dust from arid regions with potentially significant climate effects

Marine bacteria can extract all phosphate from seawater using positive charge of their cell membrane Oct 27, 2020

Scientists have discovered how the most abundant marine bacteria – fundamental to life on Earth – can extract all phosphate from seawater using ...

After the flood: Investigating vanadium geochemistry following a mine tailings dam failure Jul 3, 2019

XANES tracks the fate of an emerging contaminant released into a river environment

Synchrotron techniques allow geologists to study the surface of Mars May 3, 2019

State-of-the-art imaging uncovers the exciting life history of an unusual Mars meteorite

Probing tumour interiors Jun 19, 2018

A novel anticancer agent with 49 times greater potency

Investigation of metal deposition in organs after joint replacement Mar 19, 2018

Probing tips of chromosomes Dec 14, 2017

Finding out the nanoscale properties of human telomeres

Getting zinc where it’s needed Jun 29, 2017

Researchers concentrate zinc into the edible part of barley grains

Identifying radioactive species in a decommissioned spent nuclear fuel pond May 1, 2017

It is estimated it will cost £117 bn and take more than 100 years to deal with the UK’s legacy of radioactively contaminated waste materials from ...

Probing catalytic structure Mar 17, 2017

How changes on the nano- and microscale affect catalytic performance

Microscopy Focus: I18 Sep 12, 2016

Microfocus X-ray Fluorescence (µ-XRF)/ Microfocus X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (µ-XAS)

Annual Review: Spectroscopy Jul 13, 2016

How bacteria reduce metal toxicity to plants

3D imaging advances with Python Sep 14, 2015

Tomography processing enhanced by new modular pipeline

World first in catalysis research Aug 5, 2015

Chemical tomography techniques show the location and chemical structure of catalysts during operation in the liquid phase

One step closer to preventing hip implant replacements May 11, 2015

Characterising the chemical form of metals in human bone cells.