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Environmentally friendly silicon recycling
Added: 10 Sep 2020
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have develope…
New fossil ape discovered in India
Added: 9 Sep 2020
A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the ear…
Fungus leather: new front-runner for sustainable clothing material
Added: 9 Sep 2020
In a new review paper by the University of Vienna, Imperial College London, and RMIT University in …
Elastic to kinetic energy conversion through biomimicry
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists at the University of Massac…
Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar
Added: 1 Sep 2020
An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoe…
Coronavirus 'trap and zap' technology
Added: 24 Aug 2020
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technolog…
Converting self-sterilising water filtration technologies for COVID-19 protection
Added: 24 Aug 2020
With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that …
Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014,…
Can efficiency and sustainability coexist?
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Allison Paradise, CEO of My Green lab, a non-profit organization and Marc Boreham vice president an…
A truffle's tale... 40 years in the making
Added: 7 Aug 2020
As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology at Oregon State University, Dan Luoma att…
Advantage flat angel shark
Added: 7 Aug 2020
The general picture of a shark is that of a fast and large ocean predator. Some species, however, q…
How flying snakes glide
Added: 6 Aug 2020
Flying snakes glide through the air, flattening their bodies to provide lift. But as they glide the…
Laboratory News podcast - life on the back of a turtle with Dr Jeroen Ingels
Added: 5 Aug 2020
"I didn't realise that it is basically impossible to stop a turtle physically... it just rolls you …
Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite reveals new penguin colonies
Added: 5 Aug 2020
A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin co…
Affordable carbon-loving materials for reduced industrial emissions
Added: 28 Jul 2020
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tenne…
The truth about turtles
Sarah Lawton | Added: 20 Jul 2020
A research team from Florida State University (FSU) has discovered a world of microscopic life on t…
Supergenes play a larger role in evolution than previously thought
Added: 16 Jul 2020
Massive blocks of genes--inherited together 'plug and play' style--may play a larger role in evolut…
Algae as living biocatalysts for a green industry
Added: 13 Jul 2020
Better still: living algae can be used as biocatalysts for certain substances, and they bring the c…
Extinct Oligocene dolphins were apex predators
Added: 9 Jul 2020
A report in the journal Current Biology, offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete…
Scientists and policy experts raise COVID-19 and climate crises analogues
Added: 8 Jul 2020
Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of COVID-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went la…
