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Feeding the world
October 2, 2020
An international team of researchers led by Mario Herrero at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, investigated 75 emerging technologies to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Solving process safety and scale up
October 2, 2020
In industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to fine chemicals, there is a need to take small, laboratory scale chemical reactions to mass manufacture of a product. Joe Willmot looks at how...
Science and scientists held in high esteem across the globe
October 1, 2020
As the world looks to scientists and the research and development process to bring new treatments and preventive strategies for the novel coronavirus, a new Pew Research Center international survey...
Improving the luck of the horseshoe crab
September 21, 2020
Following some recent media controversy, Allen Burgenson, and Glenn Gauvry update our original July 2015 coverage and give us the real story behind the acceptance by the major Pharmacopeia of...
Plant-based supercapacitor delivers 900 x energy efficiency
September 11, 2020
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...
Environmentally friendly silicon recycling
September 10, 2020
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.
New fossil ape discovered in India
September 9, 2020
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...
Fungus leather: new front-runner for sustainable clothing material
September 9, 2020
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...
Elastic to kinetic energy conversion through biomimicry
September 4, 2020
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...
Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar
September 1, 2020
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...
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