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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

Antibiotic cream has high cure rate, few side effects in treating cutaneous leishmaniasis

A wrist-mounted device that continuously tracks the entire human hand in 3D

A cure for cavities?

LEDs Promise Brighter Future, Not Necessarily Greener

AbleBanking Aims To Attract Deposits By Giving Big To Charity

Extracting rare earth elements from coal mine drainage

A new micro-vehicle can attract, trap, and destroy biological threats

Using molecular nanodrills to treat skin diseases

Startup Aims to Cut the Cost of Solar Cells in Half

The wheat grown in Bangladesh is relatively salt tolerant. Researchers have now mutated this wheat variety to create new varieties that tolerate salt even better and that can provide higher yields. CREDIT Olof Olsson

A potential super wheat that actually thrives in salty soils

Sugar beet at a farm in South East England, cultivated with basalt

A 45 percent reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide by using rock dust in agriculture in the UK

Are you as old as what you eat? Researchers learn how to rejuvenate aging immune cells

Did we just discover an exoplanet covered with water about 100 light years from earth?

Drug perks up old muscles and aging brains

A new free to use database to advance the international research efforts studying COVID-19

Rowan University

UC Davis researchers find adding crushed volcanic rock to farmlands can remove carbon dioxide from the air. This'enhanced' rock weathering works even in dry climates. (Amy Quinton/UC Davis)

Adding crushed volcanic rock to cropland could play a key role in removing carbon from the air

(A-B) Remarkable cycling performance of the battery at both room temperature and subzero temperature. (C) Pressure tolerance of the battery up to 40 atmospheric pressure. (D) Non-flammability of the aqueous electrolyte compared to flammable commercial Li-ion electrolyte.

A high-performance, high energy density and quasi-solid-state magnesium-ion (Mg-ion) battery

Learning and remembering “on the fly” with a new nanowire “brain” network

A team led by scientists at the University of Cambridge has invented a reliable and transparent way of estimating the benefit of carbon stored because of forest conservation. Credit: Marije Schaafsma

Restoring faith in carbon credits via new offset markets

Using radio waves to monitor nuclear weapons stockpiles

via Princeton University Using radio waves to monitor nuclear weapons stockpiles Monitoring whether states are

Facilitating the creation of magnetic nanorobots without wires for biomedicine and computing systems

Experimental setup. A thin layer of cobalt nitride (CoN) in a liquid with ionic conductivity.

University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) (Danish: Københavns Universitet) is the oldest and second largest university

Imagine a skin cream that heals damage occurring throughout the day when your skin is exposed to sunlight or environmental toxins

A new synthetic melanin, developed by researchers at Northwestern University, mimicking the natural melanin in

A software capable of detecting intricate details of emotions that remain hidden to the human eye

Baby in headset Credit: Romana Burgess A software capable of detecting intricate details of emotions

New ways of interacting with technology start to get magical

HotGestures give users the ability to build figures and shapes in virtual reality without ever

Is it possible that we could eat our way out of the climate crisis?

Melting in a cast iron pan is a pat of butter derived through a chemical

Getting closer to a seamless human-machine interface with carbon-based sensors

Small, comfortable graphene sensors can measure a variety of bodily signals, including respirations, vocalizations, temperature

University of São Paulo (USP)

The University of São Paulo (Portuguese: Universidade de São Paulo; USP) is a public university

How to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from concrete manufacturing by more than 95 per cent

Once almost worthless, 300,000 tonnes of a slag material called SiGS may now be turned

Heading for sustainable manufacturing by scaling up self-assembling nanosheets

Transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of the new 2D nanosheet as a barrier coating that

Indoor solar comes to help power the Internet of Things

via Stable Diffusion Indoor solar comes to help power the Internet of Things From Wi-Fi-connected

Killing fungus without toxicity

The mechanism for a critical but highly toxic antifungal is revealed in high resolution. Self-assembled

Instituto Butantan

Instituto Butantan is a Brazilian biologic research center located in Butantã, in the western part

Derzhavin Tambov State University

Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavin (T.G.U) is a state university in Tambov,

Producing clean water and clean fuel at the same time with a new solar device

Device for making solar fuels on the River Cam near the Bridge of Sighs Credit:

CO2 as a chemical source for sustainable plastic production

To obtain their new compound, the researchers put a raw material into a pressurized reactor

Latest study shows that could slow Antarctic ice loss

via Kings College London Latest study shows that could slow Antarctic ice loss Scattering sunlight-reflecting

A new energy storage device

3D rendered layout of the idealised iOWC and system schematic displaying dimensions ( CREDIT: Antonio

Saratov Chernyshevsky State University

Saratov Chernyshevsky State University (SGU) is a major higher education and research institution in Russia