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 ...
Simpler and faster microscopy system enabling broader biomedical applications
Credit: by Yang Li, Terence T. W. Wong, Junhui Shi, Hsun-Chia Hsu, and Lihong V. Wang Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) ...
ALMA sees most distant Milky Way look-alike
Galaxy is distorted, appearing as a ring of light in the skyCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rizzo et al. Astronomers using the ...
Upcycling plastic waste toward sustainable energy storage
Simple process transforms PET plastic into a nanomaterial for energy storageCredit: Mihri Ozkan & Cengiz Ozkan/UC Riverside What if you ...
SMART researchers find new way to make bacteria more sensitive to antibiotics
Study finds that exposing bacteria to hydrogen sulfide can increase antimicrobial sensitivity in bacteria that do not produce H2SCredit: Jessie ...
Security gap allows eavesdropping on mobile phone calls
Credit: RUB, Marquard Calls via the LTE mobile network, also known as 4G, are encrypted and should therefore be tap-proof. ...
