Generating electricity from heat using the spin Seebeck device
Credit: POSTECH Thermoelectric (TE) conversion offers a carbon-free power generation from geothermal, waste, body or solar heat, and shows promise to be the next-generation energy...
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Endangered wallaby population bounces back after ferals fenced out
Credit: Alexandra Ross/UNSW Sydney A population of bridled nailtail wallabies in Queensland has been brought back from the brink of extinction after conservation scientists led...
Electromagnetic anomalies that occur before an earthquake
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Yuji Enomoto, Shinshu University It has been documented over hundreds of years that various electromagnetic anomalies occur during a few weeks...
Using waste heat to power an environmentally sustainable future
City, University of London's Dr Martin White, explores a novel organic Rankine system for converting waste heat into electricity.Credit: Dr Martin White In his most...
Exhibit at Venice Architecture Biennale features work of UTA students, faculty
CAPPA work on display at international architecture exhibitionCredit: UT Arlington An exhibit about watershed urbanism, featuring work by faculty and students from The University of...
Games, computing, and the mind: How search algorithms reflect game playing
Scientists explore the links between game-solving search tree algorithms and the subjective experience of playing various turn-based gamesCredit: Hiroyuki Iida from JAIST. Iahikawa, Japan -...
Deep and extreme: Microbes thrive in transition
Credit: © Caladan Oceanic LLC A diverse microbial community has adapted to an extremely salty environment deep in the Red Sea. The microbes, many unknown...
New study shows never before seen nutrient exchanges between algae and bacteria
Research co-led by Newcastle University has shed new light on important microscopic scale interactions between algae and bacteria predicated on the mutually beneficial exchange of...
Innovative Food Systems Solutions portal launch: Healthy diets for all on a healthy planet
Explore and contribute to the IFSS portal and connect to the global community working to ensure sustainable and resilient food systems that provide affordable, safe...
Researchers first synthesize conjoined bismacrocycle with all phenylene units
Credit: ZHANG Xinyu et al. The research team led by Prof. DU Pingwu from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the...
Obesity protects against death in severe bacterial infection
Credit: Photo by Elin Lindström, photo: private For many diseases, overweight and obesity are risk factors. But now a study shows that a higher BMI...
Virus infection cycle revealed in dynamic detail
Credit: Roger Castells-Graells A critical process in the infection cycle of viruses has been revealed for the first time in dynamic detail using pioneering plant-based...
New study targets secrets of great entrepreneurial cities
Why storytellers and knowledge makers shape urban vitalityCredit: QUT Media "If you build it, they will come," so says the idiom but it's the storytellers,...
Oregon State University research shows two invasive beachgrasses are hybridizing
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Two species of sand-stabilizing beachgrasses introduced to the Pacific Northwest starting in the early 1900s are hybridizing, raising...
Identifying how chemotherapy drug works could deliver personalized cancer treatment
Credit: KAIST The chemotherapy drug decitabine is commonly used to treat patients with blood cancers, but its response rate is somewhat low. Researchers have now...
