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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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Ultra-Thin Artificial Neurons Mimic Biological Processes for Advanced AI Problem-Solving

Nanoscale solar cells absorb 10 times more energy

Hong Kong University Makes Breakthrough in Gastrointestinal Treatment

OMGIALMOSTDIED (Photo credit: J.J. Verhoef)

Pumping Efficiency Into Electrical Motors

New handheld devices designed to detect brain injuries on-the-spot

Could energy from Wi-Fi signals be turned into electricity that could power electronics?

Democritus University of Thrace

Predicting whether OCD will improve with treatment via a brain scan and artificial intelligence

Can we feed the world without wrecking the planet?

Affordable renewable energy gets a boost with a new water splitting advance

New Class of Swelling Magnets Have the Potential to Energize the World

Lockheed Martin’s Samurai monocopter – you won’t believe how this thing flies

NASA aircraft inspires what could be the world’s first zero-gravity roller coaster

Mould unlocks new route to biofuels

English: Maybe visual delusions exist to remind us that everything we see might be a delusion. Español: Quizás las ilusiones ópticas existen para recordarnos que todo lo que vemos podría ser una ilusión. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dreams, déjà vu and delusions caused by faulty “reality testing”

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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

A potential solution that could have far-reaching implications for aging individuals

An artificial multisensory integrated neuron to make AI even smarter

Two years’ worth of net global carbon emissions could be saved by upgrading iron and steel plants

University of Exeter Medical School

Neuroscientists working in our Brain Research and Imaging Centre led a new study published in Nature Communications

Ultrasound can change brain functions for up to an hour

(a) Illustration of the data-writing process of the DNA movable-type storage system. For the data-writing process, high-throughput automation equipment is employed to select the desired DNA movable types and assemble them into corresponding storage units with a length of 408 bp. (b) The overall workflow of the data-writing and -reading processes of the DNA movable-type storage system. (c) Diagram of the ordered assembly of DNA movable types. By selectively digesting either with BbsI or BsaI, the representative DNA movable types A and B can be assembled in a desired order (A-B or B-A) using T4 ligase. Blue and grey areas indicate the data encoding regions. (d) Structure of the DNA movable types. The blue area in the middle stands for the data-encoding region; the two orange modules are helper fragments, which are two randomly generated sequences for improving the ligation efficiency. The two primer binding sets represented by black dotted boxes include two restriction enzyme sites of BbsI and BsaI, respectively. All the DNA movable types have a 6 bp data-encoding region and an overall length of 120 bp. There are 4096 possible sequence combinations for all 6 bp regions, yielding a total of 4096 unique pre-manufactured DNA movable types (a longer data-encoding region can also be applied, in which case the overall number of DNA movable types required to be pre-manufactured will be correspondingly enlarged).

DNA movable-type storage represents a major step forward in the field of data storage

Dr. Susie Dai, an associate professor in Texas A&M’s Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, has been studying the remediation of microplastics and PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals.” Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife Communications

Removing microplastics from water with fungus

Discovering the intention of a person using just brain wave data

Tasmanian tiger specimen used in the study and preserved in desiccation at room temperature in the Swedish National History Museum in Stockholm. Photo: Emilio Mármol Sánchez (photograph) and Panagiotis Kalogeropoulos (editing).

Getting RNA for the first time from extinct species like the Tasmanian Tiger increases resurrection chances