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Materials Sciences

New Perovskite Material Unlocks Efficient Ammonia Production

Ammonia is a useful substance that can be employed in the production of fertilizers and artificial chemicals, and even as a clean-energy carrier (in the form…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Quenched Disorder’s Impact on Manganite Nanowires

In the article “Spatial confinement tuning of quenched disorder effects and enhanced magnetoresistance in manganite nanowires” published in SCIENCE CHINA…

Earth Sciences

New Buoy Technology Enhances Earthquake and Tsunami Forecasting

University of South Florida geoscientists have successfully developed and tested a new high-tech shallow water buoy that can detect the small movements and…

Health & Medicine

Bacteria’s Secret Communication: Outsmarting Antibiotics

Researchers are now getting closer to this goal with a type of bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is notorious for infecting patients with the lung…

Information Technology

Old Newspapers Transform Into Carbon Nanotubes: New Research

A research collaboration between Rice University and the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University has found that old newspapers can be…

Materials Sciences

New Electrodes Boost Electric Vehicle and Aircraft Efficiency

One of the most significant of these challenges has to do with mass, as even the most current electric vehicle batteries and supercapacitors are incredibly…

Life & Chemistry

Phages Bind Mucosal Surfaces to Combat Disease-Causing Bacteria

The mucosal surfaces are important for protection of tissues and homeostasis, but often targeted by disease-causing bacteria. Phages have been suggested to…

Materials Sciences

New MOF Material Transforms Toxic Air Into Useful Chemicals

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Manchester, has developed a metal-organic framework, or MOF, material that provides a selective,…

Life & Chemistry

Vitamin D’s Role in Defending Against Leishmaniasis

Leishmania are single-cell parasites transmitted by sandflies. They cause leishmaniasis, an infection that occurs above all in tropical areas, the…

Life & Chemistry

Actin Filaments: Essential Structures in DNA and Muscle Cells

They play a leading role not only in muscle cells. Actin filaments are one of the most abundant proteins in all mammalian cells. The filigree structures form…

Life & Chemistry

Wound Healing in Mucous Tissues May Prevent AIDS Development

Wound healing events in mucous tissues during early infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, or SIV, guard some primate species against developing AIDS, a…

Materials Sciences

New Antenna Tech Boosts Ceramic Coatings for Heat Control

Researchers at Purdue University have engineered ceramic “nanotubes” that behave as thermal antennas, offering control over the spectrum and direction of…

Life & Chemistry

Pollinator-Friendly Bulbs Thrive in Warm-Season Lawns

A study out of the University of Arkansas investigated whether bulbs can flower and persist in warm-season lawns while providing nutrition for pollinating…

Materials Sciences

Strange Metals and High-Temperature Superconductors Explored

Strange metals make interesting bedfellows for a phenomenon known as high-temperature superconductivity, which allows materials to carry electricity with zero…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Ice Cores Reveal Insights on Climate Change

Gas bubbles trapped in the cores — which are the oldest yet recovered — contain pristine samples of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that serve as…

Physics & Astronomy

Harnessing Spin Waves: A Breakthrough in Magnetic Materials

Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient – this is the goal that developers of electronic devices have been working towards for years. In order to be able to…

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