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
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A more efficient way to capture fresh water from the air
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Bringing transformative potential to agriculture with a natural technology for ‘dimming’ genes
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Staving off coral reef collapse via a new technique
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3G networking reaches the top of the world
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New catalysed reaction could lead to huge economic gains in the pharmaceutical and agrichemical sectors
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Beamed core antimatter propulsion – more efficient, but don’t hold your breath!
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Chemical makes blind mice see
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Liu’s lab in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) developed a more compact flow battery cell configuration that reduces the size of the cell by 75%, and correspondingly reduces the size and cost of the entire flow battery.
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An “inverse vaccine” to completely reverse immune diseases?
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of layered stacks of nano-scale flash graphene sheets formed from waste plastic. (Image courtesy of Kevin Wyss/Tour lab)
A way to harvest hydrogen from plastic waste using a low-emissions method that could more than pay for itself
The first time carbon-based molecules have been discovered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the habitable zone
A potential solution that could have far-reaching implications for aging individuals
An artificial multisensory integrated neuron to make AI even smarter
Two years’ worth of net global carbon emissions could be saved by upgrading iron and steel plants
University of Exeter Medical School
Neuroscientists working in our Brain Research and Imaging Centre led a new study published in Nature Communications
Ultrasound can change brain functions for up to an hour
(a) Illustration of the data-writing process of the DNA movable-type storage system. For the data-writing process, high-throughput automation equipment is employed to select the desired DNA movable types and assemble them into corresponding storage units with a length of 408 bp. (b) The overall workflow of the data-writing and -reading processes of the DNA movable-type storage system. (c) Diagram of the ordered assembly of DNA movable types. By selectively digesting either with BbsI or BsaI, the representative DNA movable types A and B can be assembled in a desired order (A-B or B-A) using T4 ligase. Blue and grey areas indicate the data encoding regions. (d) Structure of the DNA movable types. The blue area in the middle stands for the data-encoding region; the two orange modules are helper fragments, which are two randomly generated sequences for improving the ligation efficiency. The two primer binding sets represented by black dotted boxes include two restriction enzyme sites of BbsI and BsaI, respectively. All the DNA movable types have a 6 bp data-encoding region and an overall length of 120 bp. There are 4096 possible sequence combinations for all 6 bp regions, yielding a total of 4096 unique pre-manufactured DNA movable types (a longer data-encoding region can also be applied, in which case the overall number of DNA movable types required to be pre-manufactured will be correspondingly enlarged).
DNA movable-type storage represents a major step forward in the field of data storage
Dr. Susie Dai, an associate professor in Texas A&M’s Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, has been studying the remediation of microplastics and PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals.” Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife Communications
Removing microplastics from water with fungus
Discovering the intention of a person using just brain wave data
Tasmanian tiger specimen used in the study and preserved in desiccation at room temperature in the Swedish National History Museum in Stockholm. Photo: Emilio Mármol Sánchez (photograph) and Panagiotis Kalogeropoulos (editing).
Getting RNA for the first time from extinct species like the Tasmanian Tiger increases resurrection chances
Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM)
The device designed by Leburton’s group. When salt ions flow from the higher concentration to lower concentration through the device channel, charges are dragged from one end to the other, creating voltage and electric current.
Generating power from salt water at seawater-freshwater boundaries
Passive radiative cooling in unventilated and ventilated enclosures (A) View of an experimental cooling container used by Trombe and his team in Mont-Louis, France, undated.23 (B) Diagrammatic vertical section of Trombe’s patented design for the cold house, 1967.24 (C) North-east view showing the radiative cooling facade of the cold house designed and built by Felix Trombe and his team in 1963–1963 in Odeillo, France.25 (D) Schematic drawing of the Skytherm system during the day with the movable insulation covering the roof (left), and during the night with the water-filled bags exposed to the cold-infrared sky (right).27 (E) Harold Hay and John I. Yellott in front of a prototype of the Skytherm system built in Pheonix, Arizona in 1967.28 (F) Schematic of our test box, reproducing 1% of the thermal loads, losses, and air changes attributable to one occupant. (G) Schematic of the proportions of the thermal mass, radiator, and ventilation openings needed for one occupant.
Achieving passive cooling inside naturally conditioned buildings in hot arid climates
Outdoor test of the prototype under natural sunlight Credits:Credit: Jintong Gao and Zhenyuan Xu
New desalination approach makes it is possible for water, produced by sunlight, to be even cheaper than tap water
New ultra-thin optical coatings could dramatically extend the life of solar panels by 6 times
Opening the door for vaccines against viruses that we don’t yet know about
New antimicrobial coating could revolutionize cleaning methods