A resilience to extreme conditions by the most transparent, lightweight and flexible material for conducting electricity could help revolutionise the electronic industry, according to a new... Read more
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in older people, according to the most robust study of its kind ever conducted. An... Read more
It has been suggested that 10 per cent of plastic which is thrown away ends up in the marine environment The tiny plastic particles polluting our seas are not only orally ingested by marine... Read more
A new discovery will make it possible to create pixels just a few hundred nanometres across that could pave the way for extremely high-resolution and low-energy thin, flexible displays for a... Read more
A new study has revealed that the stunning iridescent wings of the tropical blue Morpho butterfly could expand the range of innovative technologies. Scientific lessons learnt from these butt... Read more
A new study has revealed that global warming is resulting in the spread of crop pests towards the North and South Poles at a rate of nearly 3 km a year. The study, published in the journal N... Read more
Coral reefs are in decline, but their collapse can still be avoided with local and global action. That’s according to findings reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May... Read more
It sounds like science fiction but a team from the University of Exeter, with support from Shell, has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. While the technology still... Read more
“Who knows what surprises are just around the corner.” Unique properties of graphene and graph Exeter combine to create a new flexible, transparent, photosensitive device... Read more
A team of materials scientists at Harvard University and the University of Exeter, UK, have invented a new fiber that changes color when stretched. Inspired by nature, the researchers identi... Read more
GraphExeter could revolutionize the electronics industry A team of researchers from the University of Exeter have created a revolutionary material adapted from graphene. The innovation calle... Read more
The development of ‘brain-like’ computers has taken a major step forward with the publication of research led by the University of Exeter. Published in the journal Advanced Mater... Read more