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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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Passive solar-powered system could prevent freezing on airplanes, wind turbines, powerlines, and other surfaces

New camera system creates high-resolution 3-D images from up to a kilometer away

SeaClear Project: Clearing the seabed of plastics

Open-source laser fabrication lowers costs for cancer research

Taiwan university develops nano-carbon material for light source

Toward broad-spectrum antiviral drugs for common cold and other infections

A new weapon in war against flu pandemics and pneumonia

Conductive nanocoatings for textiles could lead to thin, flexible electronics

Light-powered wires could modulate the brain’s electrical signals

A new way to store information in molecules without energy could stably house data for millions of years

New chemical method will revolutionize graphene technology by expanding the scope of its applications

A microneedle skin patch solution for the antibiotic resistance crisis?

Using fallen leaves to produce eco-friendly micro-supercapacitors

Illustration showing how cationic nanomaterials target depot-specific fat cells. Credit: Qianfen Wan/CUIMC and Baoding Huang/Columbia Engineering

A major advance in treating obesity

English: Diagram of how microtubules desintegrate with Alzheimer's disease Français : La protéine Tau dans un neurone sain et dans un neurone malade Español: Esquema que muestra cómo se desintegran los microtúbulos en la enfermedad de Alzheimer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Promising approach to slow brain degeneration in a model of Huntington’s disease uncovered

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University of Padua (UNIPD)

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Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)