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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

LEGACY DISCOVERIES

Huntington’s disease can be detected 24 years before clinical symptoms show

Lowering radiation exposure through a new CT scanning method

How to stick sensors to your skin without using adhesive

Engineers stop soap bubbles from swirling – could bring improvements in many areas

New study: The myth of mineral resource exhaustion

First Lab-on-Cartridge Device That Can Perform All Common Medical Tests

Cambridge scientists use LEGO MINDSTORMS to build bone-making robots

Nano Coating Makes Aluminum 4 to 5 times Stronger

Experiment would test cloud geoengineering as way to slow warming

Lighting up cancerous tissue with a new MRI innovation

Mass spectrometry for general use could detect many things simultaneously

Power Over Wi-Fi one of the year’s game-changing technologies

Prozac as a potential 1st treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration that affects nearly 200 million people worldwide

‘Athens’ on the Net

New 3-D manufacturing method rapidly creates and precisely controls a material’s architecture from the nanoscale to centimeters

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University of Chicago Medical Center

University of Münster (WWU)

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

University of Padua (UNIPD)

University of Maryland School of Medicine

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

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

University of Vermont (UVM)

University of Sussex

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

University of Pittsburgh

University of Wollongong

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

King Abdulaziz University

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

Kyung Hee University

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Structures and mechanism of action of Comp-NPs for the diagnosis by imaging and treatment of tumors by multimodal photodynamic therapy and immunotherapy. a) Chemical structures of a polymer incorporating a chromophore for imaging upon irradiation at 808?nm (P1) or a photosensitizer for PDT upon irradiation at 650?nm (P2). b) Self-assembly of the polymers into the nanoparticles NP1 and NP2. The theranostic nanoparticle formulation Comp-NPs is generated by mixing NP1 and NP2. c) Biological mechanism of action of Comp-NPs by combined photodynamic therapy and immunotherapy. Credit: Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40826-5

New nanoparticles mean that even undetected metastases can be treated

Photo Credit Hopp et al. Scenarios involving different moral categories elicited different patterns of neural activity.

Do distinct moral categories have an underlying neurologic basis?

Hydrogen engine test and development CREDIT Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM)

Newly arrived: A 2-liter class hydrogen-fueled engine (a passenger car hydrogen engine)

Flasks containing the electricity-producing E. coli. Credit: Jamani Caillet (EPFL)

Energy generating bacteria could revolutionize both waste management and energy production

A glove made of a material designed at Rice University that kills coronaviruses with heat without burning users’ skin. (Photo by Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University)

A new material for PPE packs deadly heat for viruses on its outer surface while staying cool on the reverse side

Drinking water from hot summer air

Graphical abstract. Credit: Chem (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2023.07.008

A new room-temperature upcycling plastics process is highly energy efficient and can be powered by renewable energy