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Plant-based supercapacitor delivers 900 x energy efficiency

September 11, 2020
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In a new study, researchers at Texas A&M University have described their novel plant-based energy storage device that could charge even electric cars within a few minutes in the near...
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Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Microbiology, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Organic Chemistry
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Environmentally friendly silicon recycling

September 10, 2020
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Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have developed a new method of silicon recycling. Their research was published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
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New fossil ape discovered in India

September 9, 2020
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A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The discovery by Christopher C. Gilbert, Hunter College, fills...
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Fungus leather: new front-runner for sustainable clothing material

September 9, 2020
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In a new review paper by the University of Vienna, Imperial College London, and RMIT University in Australia, researchers argue that leather made from fungi has "considerable potential" to be...
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Biology, Botany, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Materials, Materials Science, Parasitology
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Elastic to kinetic energy conversion through biomimicry

September 4, 2020
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Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst can do it, too - they discovered a way of efficiently converting...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Botany, Engineering, Environment, Physics, Zoology
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Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar

September 1, 2020
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An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoes in Florida to combat diseases mosquito-related diseases. Dermot Martin looks into the facts of...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Developmental Biology, Environment, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Parasitology, Virology, Zoology
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Coronavirus ‘trap and zap’ technology

August 24, 2020
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Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technology to capture and deactivate the virus that causes COVID-19. Image: A schematic of the SARS-CoV-2 viral particle, which...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oceanography
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Converting self-sterilising water filtration technologies for COVID-19 protection

August 24, 2020
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With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that self-sterilises and decontaminates is being developed at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Atmospheric Sciences, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oceanography
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Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain

August 17, 2020
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Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014, with an increasing proportion of positive samples found along the wildlife supply...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Parasitology, Virology, Zoology
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Can efficiency and sustainability coexist?

August 17, 2020
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Allison Paradise, CEO of My Green lab, a non-profit organization and Marc Boreham vice president and general manager of Agilent's Laboratory Enterprise Solutions Division share their views on the interplay...
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