NSF CAREER award to study engineering pathways for Appalachian youth
Credit: Virginia Tech Jacob Grohs believes that teachers and their school systems, universities, and companies are uniquely positioned to come...
Identifying molecular targets to prevent obesity-induced cardiovascular diseases
University of Houston researcher receives $2.2 million grant from National Institutes of HealthCredit: University of Houston In the early stages...
The First Cell named LUCA
New Springer book tackles questions around the mystery of the origin of lifeCredit: Springer How did life on earth begin,...
Selective conversion of reactive lithium compounds made possible
Catalysis without unwanted by-productsCredit: RUB, Marquard Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a new catalyst that can catalyse reactions to...
Porous liquids allow for efficient gas separation
New material opens up the possibility of saving up to 80 percent of energy when separating raw materials for the...
Spider silk inspires new class of functional synthetic polymers
Credit: Giuseppe Portale, University of Groningen Synthetic polymers have changed the world around us, and it would be hard to...
Australian Indigenous banana cultivation found to go back over 2,000 years
Findings help dispel the view that Australia's first peoples were 'only hunter gatherers'Credit: ANU Archaeologists at The Australian National University...
Collaboration is key to rebuilding coral reefs
Credit: Corales de Paz The most successful and cost-effective ways to restore coral reefs have been identified by an international...
A phylogenetic analysis reveals the evolution of the mitochondrial calcium transporter
Credit: IRB Barcelona The system that regulates cellular calcium levels duplicated, generating two non-equivalent systems, some one billion years ago...
Forest geneticist receives $810,000 grant to study disease resistance in sugar pines
Amanda De La Torre is studying the genome of sugar pines to find out what makes some trees resistant to...
New advance in superconductors with ‘twist’ in rhombohedral graphite
Credit: The University of Manchester An international research team led by The University of Manchester has revealed a nanomaterial that...
Japanese biologists discover new species of sea worm in the southern ocean
Credit: Naoto Jimi, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan Earlier this year, a team from Japan's National Institute of Polar...
New way to check the quality of nanomaterials like graphene
Credit: Dr Matt Large, University of Sussex A new way to check nanomaterial quality enters the 'wild frontier' industry Nanomaterial...
Seafood study finds plastic in all samples
Credit: University of Queensland A study of five different seafoods has found traces of plastic in every sample tested. Researchers...
Efficient valves for electron spins
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Researchers at the University of Basel in collaboration with colleagues from Pisa have...
Quantum materials quest could benefit from graphene that buckles
Cooled graphene mimics effect of enormous magnetic fields that would benefit electronicsCredit: Yuhang Jiang Graphene, an extremely thin two-dimensional layer...
A quick, cost-effective method to track the spread of COVID-19
Through untreated wastewaterCredit: Warish Ahmed et al., Science of The Total Environment, June 5, 2020 A group of researchers have...
Glass blowing inspires new class of quantum sensors
Credit: Michael Haines Photography When Adelaide glass blower Karen Cunningham made art using diamond and glass she had no idea...
Flipping a metabolic switch to slow tumor growth
Credit: University of California San Diego The enzyme serine palmitoyl-transferase can be used as a metabolically responsive "switch" that decreases...
Perovskite and organic solar cells rocketed into space
Credit: DLR MORABA For the first time, researchers in Germany sent perovskite and organic solar cells on a rocket into...
