Many people have become familiar with using face masks to protect themselves and others throughout the coronavirus pandemic, yet that does not mean the masks are consistently comfortable, especially during exercise. Now, scientists reporting in ACS Nano have created a dynamic respirator that regulates its pore size in response to altering conditions, such as...
© iStock/pixartdesignResearchers came up with a novel chemical solution based on the scents of predator bugs to repel herbivorous pests and safeguard crops.Herbivorous insects are currently a major danger to farmers' crop output. Predator insects that feed on herbivorous insects emit smells that the insects can detect. To escape being eaten, bugs change their...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge decided that concentrated farming that allows for natural habitats is preferable to environmentally friendly agribusiness.Based on the study findings, concentrated farming with the highest possible yields is the most effective agricultural method. This means that farming can be limited to smaller regions, allowing more space to be left...
An international group of scientists made a tiny chemistry lab for a rover that will drill below the Martian surface, searching for previous or existing life signs. For ExoMars Reconnaissance is a joint venture involving the European Space Agency and the Russian aerospace company Roscosmos. NASA made a significant contribution to MOMA, the laboratory...
MIT researchers observe ripples across a newly fertilized egg that are similar to other systems, from ocean and atmospheric circulations to quantum fluids. Credit: MITWhen an egg cell of virtually any kind of sexually reproducing species is fertilized, it triggers a chain of waves that ripple across the egg's surface area. These waves are...
To work with light to activate processes within genetically modified fission yeast cells is amongst the research conducted by the experimental biologists in the Martin Laboratory at the University of Lausanne, led by Professor Sophie Martin. Team members were conducting such experiments when they saw that a specific protein would become displaced from the...
Nanosensors developed at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) can detect synthetic auxin plant hormones NAA and 2,4-D. Credits: The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.Scientists from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research study team of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research study...
A new research study published on September 7 details an innovation in developing advanced enzymes to sustain a renewable process to produce one of the vital products of the chemical industry (isobutene), used everywhere from beauty products to fuel.The freshly published discoveries are the outcome of collective work between Global Bioenergies and the team...
Artist’s concept of a microbial fuel cell with efficiencies boosted by silver nanoparticles. Credit: Image created by AKang, Sphere Studio. Copyright: Yu Huang and Xiangfeng DuanA UCLA-led team of engineers and chemists had a significant advancement in developing microbial fuel cells-a modern technology that uses natural bacteria to remove electrons from organic matter in...
Electrolytic hydrogen manufacturing powered by renewable energy is viewed as an environmentally safe way to relieve international environmental and energy issues. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research study team presented a new and low-cost material for electrodes that may offer very efficient, energy-saving hydrogen production: porous, phosphorized CoNi2S4 yolk-shell nanospheres.The half-reactions of water...
