Work toward a cleaner way to purify critical metals
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rare-earth elements are everywhere in modern life, found in everything from the smart device you’re reading this on to the LED lightbulbs...
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The UJI and the company Semicrol launch a platform for the exchange of experimental samples that will reduce the number of animals for scientific purposes
The Universitat Jaume I of Castelló and the company Semicrol, S.L. are developing a research project with the aim of creating an innovative platform to...
New technology ‘lights up’ bacteria in wounds for better infection prevention
LOS ANGELES — Over 6.5 million Americans experience chronic wounds — wounds that do not heal after a few months. Almost all such wounds contain...
Breakthrough in the process for mass fabricating an exotic quasi-one-dimensional material
Researchers have fabricated a quasi-one-dimensional van der Waals zirconium telluride thin film, which is a form of a substance that has long promised advances in...
USTC realizes dispersion-selective band engineering in artificial kagome superlattice
A research team led by Prof. ZENG Changgan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),...
Population genetic insights into the conservation of common walnut (Juglans regia) in Central Asia
Understanding a species’ distribution, differentiation and the factors affecting its genetic diversity is important for sustainable conservation and effective management, as well as rational utilization...
Exposure to aid early in life reduces the risk of chronic malnutrition
Children who are exposed to aid at an early age are at a lower risk of suffering from chronic malnutrition. The most notable effects come...
IOP Publishing and the Institute of Systems Engineering launch diamond OA Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering
IOP Publishing (IOPP) is partnering with the Institute of Systems Engineering (ISE), which is part of the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), to launch...
Groundbreaking studies provide key insights into chloroplasts protein import motor
Two groundbreaking studies published in the journal Cell shed light on the assembly, function and evolutionary diversity of the chloroplast protein import system. Two groundbreaking...
New study supports annual breast cancer screening for women over 40
Women diagnosed with breast cancer who had regular screening mammograms every year were less likely to have late-stage cancer and had higher overall survival than...
How much microplastic are you drinking? New UBC tool can tell you in minutes
Micro- and nanoplastics are in our food, water and the air we breathe. They are showing up in our bodies, from testicles to brain matter....
Bubbling, frothing and sloshing: Long-hypothesized plasma instabilities finally observed
Whether between galaxies or within doughnut-shaped fusion devices known as tokamaks, the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma regularly encounters powerful magnetic...
Kamikaze termites protect their colony with the help of a special enzyme. Its secrets have been uncovered by scientists from IOCB Prague
Researchers from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with colleagues from the Faculty of Tropical AgriScience...
Star lives and afterlives
A two-faced star, a star as massive as the Sun but as compact as the Moon, and star ‘corpses’ that engulf entire planets and disrupt...
Montana State scientists publish bacterial immune research in Nature
BOZEMAN – Scientists at Montana State University have been studying unique immune systems for decades, and a research team in the Department of Microbiology and...
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