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Kinky graphene ‘straintronics’ for smaller, faster microchips

February 16, 2021
News
Using 'straintronics' rather than electronics, researchers have produced the tiniest microchips yet by applying what is effectively nano-origami to graphene to create structural functionality. These nanomaterial developments allows more microchips...
Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Engineering, Environment, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Physics
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Biophilic building for human resilience and pandemic prevention

February 15, 2021
Feature
Derived in 1964 by the social psychologist Erich Fromm, 'biophilia' means to love life. Here, architect Robert Hopkins, explains how the application of biophilic design and sensor-led monitoring systems can...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Energy, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, In Depth, Medical/Health, Neuroscience
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Closed-loop chemical recycling of common petrochemical realised

January 28, 2021
News
Imagine plastics and rubber that can be chemically unzipped back to reusable monomers for recycling. In the way of all the most exciting advances, this process of depolymerisation - a...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Engineering, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry
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Love life, love remote working: applying biophilic principles to your home office

January 27, 2021
Feature
Derived in 1964 by the social psychologist Erich Fromm, 'biophilia' means to love life. Here, architect Robert Hopkins, follows up on his article in our January issue that looks at...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Environment, Health, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Medical/Health
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Unlimited gas separations materials data and analysis for industry

January 25, 2021
Insight
An international research team has reduced the analysis of materials for gas separation from weeks to hours. The extraction of pure gases for use across the energy, utilities, food and...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Organic Chemistry
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Roll over Indiana Jones – the modern archeologist comes armed with technology

January 21, 2021
News
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...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental
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Long-life, long-range, rapid recharging, affordable electric car battery

January 21, 2021
News
Go from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3 seconds and drive like a Porsche... Electric car batteries that can take you 250 miles, take only ten minutes to...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Physics, Solid State Physics
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2020’s top 100 highlights in research and scholarly commentary

January 21, 2021
Insight
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...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics
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Climate change causes in question – weather system interference may displace carbon emissions as key factor

January 13, 2021
Feature
The green economy may be in trouble as new research - described by experts as a 'meteoroligical tour de force' and policy makers as 'too hot to handle' - suggests...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, In Depth, Policy
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Vital biodiversity collections face drop in specimen deposits

January 1, 2021
News
Kansas researchers argue that expanded biodiversity infrastructure will be an essential front line of defense in pandemic preparedness in the wake of COVID-19 as preserved specimens capture the community of...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Developmental Biology, Environment, Environmental, Genetics, Life Sciences, Zoology
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