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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

Mapping the brain: Probes with tiny LEDs shed light on neural pathways

Self-Adapting Computer Network That Defends Itself Against Hackers?

The implications of microplastics in the sea, on land and in the air

The discovery of a room-temperature superconductor: the problem is high pressures of nearly three million atmospheres are still needed

biodiversity jenga (Photo credit: Kalense Kid)

Biodiversity Considerations Overshadowed by Climate Change

Rochester Institute of Technology

Scientists Close to Reviving Wooly Mammoths From Extinction

Laboratory plants, normally green, turn red in the presence of a toxic pesticide. (Sean Cutler/UCR)

What if your house plant could tell you your water isn’t safe?

With simple process, engineers fabricate fastest flexible silicon transistor for flexible electronics

New app puts the world’s biodiversity in the palm of your hand

Does intensive farming increase the risk of epidemics?

Can a vaccine stop drug abuse?

Whence cometh the revolution: Atomic-scale manufacturing

Increased CO2 Enhances Plankton Growth Over the Last 45 Years

An AI system can detect trace amounts of lung cancer with 95 percent accuracy vs. 65 percent for humans

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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

University of Saskatchewan

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