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This unassuming material is capable of capturing or releasing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in response to moisture swings.

Pulling carbon dioxide out of the air using moisture

A more efficient way to capture fresh water from the air

Bringing transformative potential to agriculture with a natural technology for ‘dimming’ genes

Staving off coral reef collapse via a new technique

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Biocrude oil from sewage is the future – and it’s almost here

Silicon polymer and battery used for the research. Description Battery and silcon dioxide sample

Silly Putty Material Inspires Better Batteries

No More Need for Embryonic Stem Cells

Breakthrough in oil palm research

Regulated or Not, Nano-Foods Coming to a Store Near You

A natural boost for MRI scans

Hummingbird: An Educational Robotics Kit Designed To Get Girls Into Engineering

Using lasers and bacteria to remotely map the location of buried landmines and unexploded ordnance

Speeding up material discovery from years to months

New method can make cheaper solar energy storage

Printing flexible electronics on almost anything using a new heat-free technique

Fuzhou University

Design and patenting of a low-cost offshore wind turbine

This new CRISPR-based system will open the door to next-generation targeted immunotherapies

Self-Sustaining Manufacturing Systems Can Even Repair Themselves

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The living material is 3D-printed as a grid-like structure.

Could a 3D-Printed ‘Living Material” Actually Clean Up Contaminated Water

The dye rhodamine-B gives the microrobot its orange colour. Its intensity provides information about how warm it is. Astrid Eckert / TUM

The world’s first microrobot capable of navigating within groups of cells and stimulating individual cells

Salts form on the surface of the strings. (Photo by Bumper DeJesus)

New vistas for environmentally friendly lithium extraction?

University of California Berkeley

King’s College London (KCL)

Purdue University

University of Bath

Aalborg University

Chonnam National University

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU)

Washington State University (WSU)

University of Sheffield

University of Michigan (UM)

Humboldt University of Berlin

Umea University

Tianjin University

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Boston College (BC)

Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Columbia University

Fudan University

University of Chicago Medical Center

University of Münster (WWU)

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

University of Padua (UNIPD)