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Oil-hungry smart sponge could restore our oceans

June 2, 2020
A Northwestern University-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in...

Plastic-eating superworms host biodegrading gut bacteria

May 29, 2020
Resembling giant mealworms, superworms (Zophobas atratus) are beetle larvae that are often sold in pet stores as feed for reptiles, fish and birds. In addition to their relatively large size...

Deep earthquake simulation may unravel geophysical mystery (video)

May 29, 2020
New computer modeling by Magali Billen, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Davis, offers new understanding of our planet's deepest earthquakes and could help unravel one of the...

Illegal wildlife trading threatens all creatures great and small

May 28, 2020
Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of global public health issues and hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage around the...

Listen to the song of the Arctic unicorn (video)

May 26, 2020
With the help of Inuit hunters, geophysicists recently recorded the various calls, buzzes, clicks and whistles of narwhals as they summered in a Greenland fjord. The recordings help scientists better...

Will our climate bounce back as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown?

May 19, 2020
Stanford research study envisions energy and environment landscape after COVID-19, pinpointing reduced demand hotspots and estimating impact on annual emissions. Join the webinar on 21 May: ‘Post-Pandemic: Building Back Resiliently’

Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs

May 17, 2020
Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic environments such as transport hubs to enable improved management to prevent transmission and slow the...

Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing

May 17, 2020
In light of the UK government’s request for employers to enable staff to safely return to work where possible, the imperative for employers to implement upgraded health and safety monitoring...

Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data

May 12, 2020
A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research, one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, has responded to a request from the White House, Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg...

The renaissance of supercritical fluid chromatography

May 10, 2020
Early development of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) was described as high-pressure or dense gas chromatography (HPGC or DGC) and low boiling point hydrocarbons were used as the supercritical mobile phase....

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