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Peng Zhou uses a large lens to concentrate sunlight onto the water-splitting catalyst. Outdoors, the device was ten times more efficient than previous efforts at solar water splitting. Photo: Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

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Making solar fuels out of thin air: Harvesting water from the air for conversion into hydrogen fuel

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A new catalyst is 10 times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind

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Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy. They could also serve as charging stations for ships or be used to produce electrical power for floating factories that produce renewable fuels like hydrogen or methanol. Illustration: Kasper Pindsle, pinkas.no

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Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy

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Team: Gina Myers (BIOE), Arthur Labarre (CEE), Weiheng (Jarvis) Lu (IEOR), Priyaj Mehta (ME), Ronggen Chen (ME) Advisor: Tarek Zohdi (ME)

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Floating solar modules offer numerous advantages over land-based solar power installations

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Cells treated with the compound (right) showed reduced infection from the Omicron variant compared to untreated cells (left). (Photo credit: Dr. Selvarani Vimalanathan, Molecular Biomedicine)

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A compound shows early promise at halting infections from a range of coronaviruses, including all variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold

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Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

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The great potential of brown algae for climate protection

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Reducing the carbon footprint of biogas by 36 percent by using air-source heat pumps

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With the novel COMPASS test, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in a few seconds. (Image: Dr. Patrick Vogel / Universität Würzburg)

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A newly developed rapid test needs only a few seconds to reliably detect pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2.

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Another milestone in the development of cultivated meat using 3D bioprinting

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The field of animal ecology has entered the era of big data and the Internet of Things

February 13, 2022

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Organic pollutants can have their toxicity increased tenfold by concentrating in microplastics

February 16, 2022

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Data from the wearable sweat sensor developed at UT Dallas can show changes in the levels of biomarkers. A recent study shows that the sensor can detect two key biomarkers to help diagnosticians determine whether a viral infection may be present.

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Fungi-based microbial meat alternatives could halve deforestation by 2050

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The world’s first biodegradable shoe: Sustainable sneakers

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A drug-resistant mould is spreading from the environment and infecting susceptible people’s lungs

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Screening for Alzheimer’s, ADHD and other neurological diseases at home with a new smart app

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A wearable air sampling device can assess your personal exposure to SARS-CoV-2

January 12, 2022

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A new catalyst is 10 times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind

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Peng Zhou uses a large lens to concentrate sunlight onto the water-splitting catalyst. Outdoors, the device was ten times more efficient than previous efforts at solar water splitting. Photo: Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Making solar fuels out of thin air: Harvesting water from the air for conversion into hydrogen fuel

3 months ago

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Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy. They could also serve as charging stations for ships or be used to produce electrical power for floating factories that produce renewable fuels like hydrogen or methanol. Illustration: Kasper Pindsle, pinkas.no

Solar islands could provide our planet with abundant energy

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Team: Gina Myers (BIOE), Arthur Labarre (CEE), Weiheng (Jarvis) Lu (IEOR), Priyaj Mehta (ME), Ronggen Chen (ME) Advisor: Tarek Zohdi (ME)

Floating solar modules offer numerous advantages over land-based solar power installations

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Decoupled electrolysis of water compared with the direct electrolysis of water uses a lot less energy

August 25, 2021

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A new sensor could allow researchers to detect the rare earth element terbium from complex environmental samples, such as acid mine drainage — pictured here polluting a Pennsylvania stream. Credit: Rachel A. Brennan, Penn State.Credit: Gellert Mezei

Targeting rare earth elements in mining and other waste with a new sensor approach

August 26, 2021

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A nanojar traps a carbonate ion (center) to remove it from water. Credit: Gellert Mezei

Capturing dissolved carbon dioxide and toxic ions from water with “nanojars”

August 26, 2021

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Cells treated with the compound (right) showed reduced infection from the Omicron variant compared to untreated cells (left). (Photo credit: Dr. Selvarani Vimalanathan, Molecular Biomedicine)

A compound shows early promise at halting infections from a range of coronaviruses, including all variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold

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Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

The great potential of brown algae for climate protection

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Reducing the carbon footprint of biogas by 36 percent by using air-source heat pumps

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With the novel COMPASS test, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in a few seconds. (Image: Dr. Patrick Vogel / Universität Würzburg)

A newly developed rapid test needs only a few seconds to reliably detect pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2.

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How about producing fertilizer without carbon emissions?

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Another milestone in the development of cultivated meat using 3D bioprinting

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The field of animal ecology has entered the era of big data and the Internet of Things

February 13, 2022

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Organic pollutants can have their toxicity increased tenfold by concentrating in microplastics

February 16, 2022

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Data from the wearable sweat sensor developed at UT Dallas can show changes in the levels of biomarkers. A recent study shows that the sensor can detect two key biomarkers to help diagnosticians determine whether a viral infection may be present.

Fungi-based microbial meat alternatives could halve deforestation by 2050

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The world’s first biodegradable shoe: Sustainable sneakers

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A drug-resistant mould is spreading from the environment and infecting susceptible people’s lungs

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Screening for Alzheimer’s, ADHD and other neurological diseases at home with a new smart app

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A wearable air sampling device can assess your personal exposure to SARS-CoV-2

January 12, 2022

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A bacterial enzyme converts carbon dioxide into carbon compounds 20 times faster than plant enzymes do during photosynthesis

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A new breed of honey bees provides a major advance in the global fight against the parasitic Varroa mite

12 months ago

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Controlling pandemics costs far more than preventing them

February 5, 2022

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The presence of the MCR-9 gene in Georgia is a major concern for public health

January 17, 2022

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The new wheat line growing in the field. The wheat on the right has the extra flower-bearing spikelets artificially highlighted in pink to show their extent. Image: The University of Adelaide.

Increasing the protein content of wheat by up to 25 per cent

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Ingestion of microplastics can trigger evolutionary changes

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Decarbonization technologies take a very large step to clean the air

January 8, 2022

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Use fossil power plants at full capacity for one last time . . . and then switch them off forever?

November 21, 2021

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Sandia National Laboratories’ innovative design for offshore wind: no heavy tower, instead wind blades pulled taut with guy wires. (Illustration by Brent Haglund)

A radically new idea for offshore wind turbines

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Previous understanding of such textures was disjointed

A new toolkit to quickly discover mineral deposits crucial to ‘green economy’ transition

March 16, 2022

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One step closer to cleaner oceans: The first robots to clean up ocean floor litter

10 months ago

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Increasing the effectiveness of antibiotics

October 28, 2021

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Sugar beet at a farm in South East England, cultivated with basalt

A 45 percent reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide by using rock dust in agriculture in the UK

11 months ago

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Could the key to animal-free meat and more be a tiny ocean microbe?

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A way to stop fossil fuels causing global warming?

October 28, 2021

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Info graphic which shows what effects the collision of DART could have on the orbit of Didymos B. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL

The world’s first full-scale planetary defense test against potential asteroid impacts on Earth

9 months ago

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Plans for planetary defense begin in earnest with a test launch today

November 23, 2021

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Nutrient pollution can lead to the growth of harmful algal blooms such as cyanobacteria also known as blue-green algae, pictured. CREDIT UKCEH

Possible solutions to the global phosphorus crisis that threatens food and water security

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Climate change and intensive agricultural land use have already been responsible for a 49% reduction in the number of insects

11 months ago

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It looks like climate change has begun to suffocate the world’s oceans

February 2, 2022

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Is cognitive activity operating on a planetary scale necessary to tackle global issues such as climate change?

February 17, 2022

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An age-old solution to the global phosphorus crisis – wildlife

12 months ago

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Saving the Cavendish banana with a new grafting technique

December 29, 2021

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'Real-time snapshot of epidemic trends worldwide'

Global outbreak monitoring gets a real-time epidemic forecasting tool

11 months ago

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New cost-effective method for carbon capture from coal-fired power plants in particular

10 months ago

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A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell (size 1 cm x 1 cm) mounted on a heat sink designed to measure the TPV cell efficiency. To measure the efficiency, the cell is exposed to an emitter and simultaneous measurements of electric power and heat flow through the device are taken. Image: Felice Frankel

A heat engine with no moving parts converts heat to electricity with over 40 percent efficiency

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Milling gypsum and urea with steel balls creates a so-called co-crystal that releases its nitrogen only slowly. Credit: Ruder Boskovic Institute, Krunoslav Užarevi

A purely mechanical method can produce a novel more sustainable fertilizer in a less polluting way

11 months ago

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What to do about the illegal and unsustainable wildlife?

October 14, 2021

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The three primary constituents of the battery are aluminum (left), sulfur (center), and rock salt crystals (right). All are domestically available Earth-abundant materials not requiring a global supply chain.

A new kind of grid storage battery made entirely from abundant and inexpensive materials

7 months ago

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In order to meet climate change threats wind and solar power development has to increase dramatically

October 17, 2021

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Real-time and accurate virus detection method to get us ready for the next pandemic

10 months ago

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Space junk is a serious waste of space

October 31, 2021

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Aegilops sharonensis in its natural habitat

A promising way to give wheat immunity to the biggest pathogen threat that reduces yields by 21% world wide

March 26, 2022

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Conversion of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide with 100 percent efficiency

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The wheat grown in Bangladesh is relatively salt tolerant. Researchers have now mutated this wheat variety to create new varieties that tolerate salt even better and that can provide higher yields. CREDIT Olof Olsson

A potential super wheat that actually thrives in salty soils

10 months ago

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A way to remove microplastics from wastewater with okra and aloe

March 22, 2022

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The ability to predict which viruses could infect humans, which animals host them, and where they could emerge from using AI

January 12, 2022

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No other choice: A fundamental shift in how we think of ourselves as a species as we finally recognize ongoing resources are limited

8 months ago

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Less than one third of scientific results are reproducible?

12 months ago

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A chemical used in electric vehicle batteries could also give us carbon-free fuel for space flight

February 23, 2022

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Making hacking futile using quantum cryptography

8 months ago

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A biobased alternative to PET gets much more efficient

7 months ago

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There are just too many unknowns for deep-sea mining

March 11, 2022

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Could fish farming be transformed by the humble sea cucumber?

8 months ago

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Where the square piece of glass sits lower than the orange liquid, this is the Moses’ ‘parting of the waters’ effect. Caused by the surface energy/shield effect of the spray. Image: Cesar Nicolas

A first-of-its-kind sprayable coating that can prevent the surface spread of infection from bacteria and viruses – including COVID-19 over a sustained period

8 months ago

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The ability to future-proof crops?

December 19, 2021

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Is there nowhere on Earth where the rain would be safe to drink?

8 months ago

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This work provides both understanding of the natural systems in algae that achieve high CO2 conversion rates and a roadmap for engineering in plants. Niall Mangan Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Enhancing the growth of food crops by understanding fast-growing algae

10 months ago

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A new design for a filter could help remove carbon dioxide from flue gas emissions and air. Credit: Sonja Salmon.

Could a simple reusable cotton based filter remove carbon dioxide from air and gas mixtures at promising rates?

10 months ago

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Carbon dioxide (depicted in red and white at left) is the main greenhouse gas warming Earth and is emitted in large quantities in the flue gas from industrial and power plants. A new method for removing CO2 from these flue gases involves piping the emissions through a porous material based on the chemical melamine (center). DETA, a chemical bound inside the porous melamine, grabs CO2 and removes it from the gas, with nitrogen vented to the atmosphere. (Image courtesy of Haiyan Mao and Jeffrey Reimer, UC Berkeley)

Could melamine big a really big help in carbon capture?

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A 3D-printed “leaf” made with the new bioplastic. CREDIT Alain Herzog (EPFL)

A biomass-derived plastic similar to PET that meets the criteria for replacing several current plastics

9 months ago

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Filtration column at the Eawag laboratory and on the pilot scale at the lake water facility of the Zurich Water Works

Removing nanoplastics easily from drinking water with 99.9% efficacy

10 months ago

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The review from Chris Bryant considered environmental and health factors associated with plant-based meat products. via Stanford Medicine

Are plant-based meats any healthier and more sustainable than animal products?

8 months ago

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After two weeks without water, wheat did not survive when soil was pretreated with water (left), but thrived when the soil was pretreated with 3% ethanol (right). The same was true for rice and the model plant Arabidopsis. CREDIT: RIKEN

Adding ethanol to soil allows plants to better resist drought – including wheat and rice

7 months ago

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A map showing mining sites (in red) and areas of high aggregate demand (in blue). via UNIGE / UQ

A novel solution to drastically reduce world’s largest waste stream and help avoid a sand sustainability crisis

12 months ago

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The Water Tower conservation project at the Public Abbatoir in Marsa took advantage of UHDC materials when it was reopened earlier this year. Built in the late 19th century, the landmark water tower was one of the first concrete structures in Malta, but had been slated for demolition because of its run-down condition.

Using self-healing concrete and biocement to build a much more sustainable future

8 months ago

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Algae-based prawns are made from this powder. (Photograph: Stefan Weiss)

Microalgae-based seafood substitutes to protect the marine environment

9 months ago

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The Hydrogen-Diesel Direct Injection Dual-Fuel System features independent control of hydrogen direct injection timing, as well as diesel injection timing, enabling full control of combustion modes – premixed or mixing-controlled hydrogen combustion. Image from Prof. Shawn Kook

Retrofitting diesel engines to run on 90 per cent hydrogen

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Peter Olsén, a researcher at KTH, holds up a sample piece of a new degradable plastic from wood. “These new materials, because of their high fiber content and degradable, matrix could be a game changer for a future circular material economy," he says. (Photo: courtesy of Peter Olsén)

A new kind of wood-based degradable plastic could replace fossil-based materials used in home construction and furnishing

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New technology creates carbon neutral chemicals out of thin air

Capturing CO2 from the surrounding air and directly converting it into useful products

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Left: a schematic showing the key components of the reactor and working mechanism. Right: a picture of the CO2 stack, which is a demonstration of the commercial reactors.

New technology makes the process of turning CO2 into valuable chemicals economically viable for industrialization

6 months ago

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Light filtering through soybean canopy. Credit: Allie Arp/RIPE project

Bioengineering better photosynthesis increases yields in food crops for the first time ever

7 months ago

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Who knew? A serious sulfur shortage looms as the world decarbonizes

7 months ago

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The ability to reverse antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections

December 14, 2021

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Are dual-action antibiotics the next big thing to fight drug resistance?

8 months ago

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The unicellular fungus Ustilago maydis (left: microscopic image) is the pathogen that causes the plant disease corn smut (right: image of a plant with the disease). The fungus can be genetically modified to produce a microbial oil. (Photos: HHU / Magnus Philipp)

Using corn waste to make a viable palm oil substitute

8 months ago

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An emerging of solar energy technology, made with perovskite semiconductors, has passed the long-sought milestone of a 30-year lifetime. The Princeton Engineering researchers who designed the new device also revealed a new method for testing long-term performance, a key hurdle on the road to commercialization. Photo by Bumper DeJesus

The first perovskite solar cell with a commercially viable lifetime can perform above industry standards for around 30 years

9 months ago

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In adsorption cooling systems, molecules of vapor refrigerant (the guest) are adsorbed in the nanopores of a solid material (the host). Motkuri and his collaborators have studied how changing the geometry of the nanopores (pore engineering) and the speed of host-guest chemical interactions affect the cooling capacity and energy efficiency of adsorption cooling systems. (Image by Rose Perry | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Adsorption cooling: The greening of air conditioning

8 months ago

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Millions of jobs at stake: Marine heatwaves could wipe out an extra six per cent of a country’s fish catches if we don’t act

October 3, 2021

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Creating super-spuds that are resistant to heat, drought and flooding

8 months ago

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Could sustainable development speed up with the help of robotics and autonomous systems?

9 months ago

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Many honey bees in the U.S. lack the floral diversity they need to eat a balanced diet, causing poor nutrition. Photo by James Brosher, Indiana University

One of the leading causes of honey bee decline could be mitigated by a specific bacterial microbe

9 months ago

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Food researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are introducing a new sorting technology that means we get five good cuts from fish and not just the fillet. A herring processing plant on Sweden’s west coast is already implementing the new method. CREDIT Chalmers University of Technology | Ingrid Undeland

Turning the whole fish into nutritious food instead of just using the 30 percent or so we are now

9 months ago

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Building direct air capture rail cars to utilize railway networks to help mitigate climate change

8 months ago

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Photocatalyst sheet containing light-absorbing particles and bacteria

A novel technology that can help to tackle climate change and address the global energy crisis

8 months ago

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Mineralizing carbon dioxide underground is a potential carbon storage method. (Illustration by Cortland Johnson | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Turning carbon dioxide into solid minerals

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A viable solution to the production of carbon neutral fuels and chemicals

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Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

The great potential of brown algae for climate protection

3 months ago

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Monitoring the vital signs of animals in the wild using drones

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Left: methane concentrations measured by Tropomi during 2018-2019 around Buenos Aires, Argentina. Right: zoom-in by GHGSat on April 19th 2021, showing methane plumes from the landfill in the city centre. The wind direction is given by the white arrow. SRON/GHGSat, contains Copernicus Sentinel data (2018–2019), processed by SRON

Methane satellites find landfills that emit tens of tons of methane per hour

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The chip sandwich: an electronics chip (the smaller chip on the top) integrated with a photonics chip, sitting atop a penny for scale. (Credit: Arian Hashemi Talkhooncheh)

A new electronic/photonic chip sandwich for data centers burns a fraction of the power used now

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Japanese larch tree seedlings grown without (left) and with (right) the use of a wavelength converting material (WCM) sheet. (Sunao Shoji et al. Scientific Reports. October 26, 2022)

Accelerating plant growth with UV-to-red light converting films

5 months ago

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Solar tower fuel plant during operation

A fuel production system that uses only water, carbon dioxide and sunlight to produce aviation fuel

8 months ago

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The nanoclusters are dispersed in a PVP matrix that is then coated on ITO glass to block NIR and UV rays while letting visible light pass through.

Coating materials that could make windows better insulators

6 months ago

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Researchers at RMIT University have found an innovative way to rapidly remove hazardous microplastics from water using magnets. Lead researcher Professor Nicky Eshtiaghi said existing methods could take days to remove microplastics from water, while their cheap and sustainable invention achieves better results in just one hour. The team says they have developed adsorbents, in the form of a powder, that remove microplastics 1,000 times smaller than those currently detectable by existing wastewater treatment plants. The researchers have successfully tested the adsorbents in the lab, and they plan to engage with industry to further develop the innovation to remove microplastics from waterways. “The nano-pillar structure we’ve engineered to remove this pollution, which is impossible to see but very harmful to the environment, is recycled from waste and can be used multiple times,” said Eshtiaghi from the School of Engineering. “This is a big win for the environment and the circular economy.” How does this innovation work? The researchers have developed an adsorbent using nanomaterials that they can mix into water to attract microplastics and dissolved pollutants. Muhammad Haris, the first author and PhD candidate from the School of Engineering, said the nanomaterials contained iron, which enabled the team to use magnets to easily separate the microplastics and pollutants from the water. “This whole process takes one hour, compared to other inventions taking days,” he said. Co-lead researcher Dr Nasir Mahmood said the nano-pillar structured material was designed to attract microplastics without creating any secondary pollutants or carbon footprints. “The adsorbent is prepared with special surface properties so that it can effectively and simultaneously remove both microplastics and dissolved pollutants from water,” said Mahmood from the School of Science. “Microplastics smaller than 5 millimetres, which can take up to 450 years to degrade, are not detectable and removable through conventional treatment systems, resulting in millions of tonnes being released into the sea every year. This is not only harmful for aquatic life, but also has significant negative impacts on human health.” What are the next steps? Developing a cost-effective way to overcome these significant challenges posed by microplastics was critical, Eshtiaghi said. “Our powder additive can remove microplastics that are 1,000 times smaller than those that are currently detectable by existing wastewater treatment plants,” she said. “We are looking for industrial collaborators to take our invention to the next steps, where we will be looking at its application in wastewater treatment plants.” Original Article: Magnetic material mops up microplastics in water A magnet attracts the material that the team used to make adsorbents that remove microplastics and dissolved pollutants from water. Credit: RMIT University

Removing hazardous microplastics quickly from water using magnets

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More than half of human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change

8 months ago

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A diagram of Sandia National Laboratories’ simple closed-loop Brayton cycle test loop. The working fluid being compressed, heated and expanded to produce power is supercritical carbon dioxide. Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. (Graphic courtesy Sandia National Laboratories)

On the brink of a new more efficient power-generating system

8 months ago

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A tabular iceberg floating within Paradise Harbour, Antarctica

Refreezing the poles by reducing incoming sunlight would be both feasible and remarkably cheap

6 months ago

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Solar filters emit a red light over tomato plants growing in a research field at UC Davis in 2022. The work further tests the findings of a UC Davis study showing plants in agrivoltaic systems respond best to the red spectrum of light while blue light is better used for energy production. Andre Daccache/UC Davis)

Agrivoltaics: Growing food and clean energy together by harvesting light

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Using sewage discharged from wastewater treatment plants to sequester CO2 and stop it from reaching the atmosphere

6 months ago

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Peng Zhou uses a large lens to concentrate sunlight onto the water-splitting catalyst. Outdoors, the device was ten times more efficient than previous efforts at solar water splitting. Photo: Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Making solar fuels out of thin air: Harvesting water from the air for conversion into hydrogen fuel

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Experimental wafer stack design for diffusion in special quartz boats. via Fraunhofer ISE

Cutting production times for high-efficiency solar cells by half could really speed up adoption

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