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Developing multi-functional catalysts with light switches

January 25, 2021
Researchers were able to observe the atomic-scale features of a catalyst using an environmental transmission electron microscope, enabling them to manipulate and optimise catalytic reactions using light. This technique could...

Why cells don’t get stuck – generalised cell migration and motility modelled mathematically

January 22, 2021
Cell movement has now been mathematically modelled by an interdisciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists. Understanding this fundamental process will allow scientists to predict cell behaviours and improve targeted...

Roll over Indiana Jones – the modern archeologist comes armed with technology

January 21, 2021
Looking into the past never looked so futuristic as it does today, and the Indiana Jones-style stereotype - with his muck-ridden, dirt digging, tomb raiding archeology - must make way...

2020’s top 100 highlights in research and scholarly commentary

January 21, 2021
Good science thrives - even during a pandemic! We all know what dominated most of our thoughts in 2020, but many scientists continued to focus on driving ideas within their...

Ousting spiritualist clairvoyance with scientific clairaudience

January 20, 2021
Hearing voices can be a serious business - both for those afflicted and anyone they might choose to draw into their experiences when translating the phenomenon as a connection to...

Modelling system evolution dynamics for better ecosystem management

January 20, 2021
Imagine being able to stop species becoming unexpectedly endangered in the first place... Researchers have demonstrated that ecosystem management can be modelled to highlight potential adjustments to ongoing control strategies...

Laser-triggered chemical adhesion for tissue engineering of replacement organs

January 19, 2021
Laser-triggered chemical adhesion used to build proteins onto biological polymer scaffolding to bring artificial but functional, laboratory-grown replacement organs one step closer to a reality. Researchers have found lasers and...

Uncovering the magic of metallographic Turing pattern formation

January 19, 2021
While we have become used to seeing stripes and spots in nature, it still seems amazing to see similarily distinct 'Turing patterns' form on non-biological surfaces. Now, an international research...

Megalodon babies were born larger than a man

January 18, 2021
While 'The Meg' exaggerated its movie magic megalodon, researchers have shown a baby megatooth shark (Otodus megalodo)would have been bigger than you from the day it was born! Data also...

Dire wolves evolved in isolation from gray wolves

January 15, 2021
Reality is more interesting than myth, and all Game of Throne fans who fell in love with Lady, Grey Wind, Ghost and the Stark family's direwolf pack can celebrate in...

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