New process enables lithium mining in Germany
Scientists at KIT achieve patent protection for minimally invasive technology to mine lithium in geothermal plantsCredit: Photo: Amadeus Bramsiepe Whether ...
Month: July 2020
1.5 billion people will depend on water from mountains
Credit: D. Viviroli Global water consumption has increased almost fourfold in the past 100 years, and many regions can only ...
Dopamine neurons mull over your options
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have found that dopamine neurons in the brain regulate the internal process of economic ...
Excitation of robust materials
Kiel physics team observed extremely fast electronic changes in real time in a special material classCredit: © AG Bauer In ...
Towards improved wound healing — Chemical synthesis of a trefoil factor peptide
Milestone for therapeutic development of peptides against gastrointestinal disordersCredit: © Universität Wien The three known human trefoil factor family peptides ...
Limitations of super-resolution microscopy overcome
Credit: (Picture: Team Markus Sauer / University of Wuerzburg) With high-resolution microscopy, it is theoretically possible to image cell structures ...
Soy and wheat proteins helpful for building aging muscles, but not as potent as animal protein
Credit: Photo credit: Anita Bean On a gram for gram basis, animal proteins are more effective than plant proteins in ...
For cleaner air, water, and soil
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The air around us is still getting more and more polluted. No wonder many scientists ...
A chemical cocktail of air pollution in Beijing, China during COVID-19 outbreak
Credit: Hao Li The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreads rapidly around the world, and has limited people's outdoor activities substantially. ...
On-chip spin-Hall nanograting for simultaneously detecting phase and polarization singularities
Credit: Fu Feng, Guangyuan Si, Changjun Min, Xiaocong Yuan, Michael Somekh Optical singularities are key elements in modern optics and ...
Super-fast AI system installed at KIT
One of the most powerful AI computer systems in Europe now supports scientists in solving humanity's problemsCredit: Photo: Simon Raffeiner ...
Engineers use electricity to clean up toxic water
Powerful electrochemical process destroys water contaminants, such as pesticidesCredit: Julia Ciarlini Jungers Soares, University of Sydney A team of engineers ...
Princeton chemists resolve origin of perovskite instability
The source of thermodynamic instability found in "rattling" behaviorCredit: Figure by Daniel Straus Researchers in the Cava Group at the ...
UC Riverside discovers first effective treatment for citrus-destroying disease
New license agreement commercializes innovative, safe technologyCredit: UCR UC Riverside scientists have found the first substance capable of controlling Citrus ...
New study sparks fresh call for seagrass preservation
An increase in carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to 5 million cars a year has been caused by the loss of ...
Microplastic pollution harms lobster larvae, study finds
Microplastic fibers in the ocean impact larval lobsters at each stage of their developmentCredit: Madelyn Woods Microplastic fiber pollution in ...
Nematode has potential to reduce cotton yields by 50 percent
Credit: Kathy Lawrence The reniform nematode is one of the most commonly found pests of cotton, with the ability to ...
Group genomics drive aggression in honey bees
Credit: Photo by Manuel A. Giannoni-Guzman CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers often study the genomes of individual organisms to try to ...
Running in Tarahumara culture
Long distance runnersCredit: Lieberman, Daniel E. "Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) Culture," just published in Current Anthropology (v61, no. 3 (June ...
Liquid crystal integrated metalens for versatile color focus
Researchers integrated photo-patterned liquid crystal into a dielectric metasurface to achieve achromatic and chromatic focusing with a single metalensCredit: Image ...
