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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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Vissershok Container Classroom / Tsai Design Studio

Natural Products Discovery Group Asks for Public’s Help with Citizen Science Program

University of the Sunshine Coast

Slashing energy costs of fluid transport by 22 percent with an easily implemented new pumping strategy

Battery-Less Radios Developed

Massive libraries of proteins from DNA samples could usher in a new era of functional genomics

A way to generate electricity from nylon using gentle body movement

Sri Aurobindo Medical College

Star-shaped gold nanoparticles can produce hydrogen from water over four times more efficiently

Could this mark the start of real-time and on-demand hydrogen production?

Using an AI neural network to probe quantum systems at exponential speed

A Phone So Smart, it Sniffs out Disease

Charles Leadbeater on Innovation (Video)

Robot Space Plane Settles into Mystery Mission

Monsanto’s Plan to Help the Honeybee

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Could space elevators transform humanity into a spacefaring civilization?

Bio-based nylon gets a head start

This illustration, created at the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain

The first all-species coronavirus test to help spot the potential next viral bad actor

Reversible changes in color and crystal structures during storage and extraction of ammonia through chemical conversion CREDIT RIKEN

Hydrogen finds a new storage and retrieval medium that is safe, easy, and affordable

The spider-inspired spinning method pioneered by NUS researchers produces soft fibres that are strong, stretchable and electrically conductive.

Producing soft and recyclable fibres for smart textiles

This figure depicts the particle trajectory inside the cyclone sampler during air sampling. The Washington University team used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to gain insight into the size-dependent collection efficiency of aerosols inside the wet cyclone. (Image: Joseph Puthussery)

A real-time air monitor that can detect Covid variants, flu, RSV in a room in about 5 minutes

A bright future in eco-friendly light devices, just add dendrimers, cellulose, and graphene

Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells: The New Eco-Friendly Materials for Light-Emitting Devices

Could companion robots help socially isolated people avoid the health risks of being alone?

Space-Based Solar Power can work for the Earth and the Moon

Self-sensing electric artificial muscles have the potential to revolutionize soft robotics and medical applications

Rejuvenation and age reversal of senescent human skin cells by chemical means. Cells in the right two panels have restored compartmentalization of the red fluorescent protein in the nucleus, a marker of youth that was used to find the cocktails, before the scientists confirmed they were younger, based on how genes were expressed. Image credit: J. -H. Yang, Harvard Medical School. CREDIT 2023 Yang et al.

Unlocking a new frontier in the fight against aging and age-related diseases

New research shows an insect’s ability to find food and a mate is reduced when their antennae are contaminated by particulate matter.

The impact of air pollution on insect health and reproduction is greater than previously understood

A wild New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) uses a stick tool to hunt for invertebrate prey – credit James St Clair

Using AI to open up the prospect of understanding what animals say to each other or of even initiating a conversation

AI impression of orbiting particle spun by a rotating light beam. Image courtesy of Matan Yah Ben Zion.

New ways that living matter can be reproduced on a cellular scale

Diagram of phase transitions in the thermocell. This diagram illustrates the polymer phase transitions of the modified PNIPAM hydrogel, showing how the polymer elongates into a coil and dissolves at low temperatures, and curls up into a globule and becomes solid at high temperatures. When used as a thermocell battery, temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius generated a voltage. Credit: Zhou et al.

A case for the rapid social implementation of thermoelectric power

(Photo credit: Claire Lacey, Marine Mammal Research Program, HIMB)

Using facial recognition to identify dolphins and whales

AI has the potential to learn like humans

New material illuminated with ultraviolet light./ ICB-CSIC

A new sustainable material that could revolutionize electronic devices

Green marks the spot where a fissure formed, then fused back together in this artistic rendering of nanoscale self-healing in metal, discovered at Sandia National Laboratories. Red arrows indicate the direction of the pulling force that unexpectedly triggered the phenomenon. (Image by Dan Thompson)

The possibility of self-healing machines: Metals can heal themselves

A biomedical compound that has the potential to stop the spread of breast cancer

A new Scripps Research machine-learning system tracks how epidemic viruses evolve. This technology could have predicted the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 “variants of concern” (VOCs) ahead of their official designations by the World Health Organization (WHO). Credit: Graphic made using BioRender.com

An AI-based tracking and early-warning system for viral pandemics

Shinshu University

University of Helsinki

Boston University (BU)

University of Tübingen