Protecting herbarium staff from mercury contaminated specimens
22 Aug 2011
The University of Manchester museum herbarium was founded in 1860 and contains over a million specimens from all over the world, with collections spanning hundreds of years. The challenge of how to preserve More...

Studying dust frozen in time
08 Dec 2011
Ice cores drilled from the frozen Antarctic landscape are made up of layer upon layer of frozen snow, dating back hundreds of thousands of years. Trapped within the ice are minute dust particles which More...

Synthesis and characterisation of redox-active, nanocrystalline oxides
01 Jun 2011
The properties of nanocrystalline materials, where crystallinity is limited to particles of a few nanometres in dimension, are heavily researched in a number of contemporary areas. This is because once More...