Photocatalyst makes hydrogen production 10 times more efficient
SrTiO3 mesocrystal light emission.
Credit: Image courtesy of Kobe University
Hydrogen is an alternative source of energy that can be produced from renewable sources of sunlight...
LEDs light the way for better drug therapies
A blue LED shines on a vial containing heavy water, a pharmaceutical compound, and a light-activated catalyst. The new photocatalytic approach from Princeton's David...
A new way to produce clean hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight
Transmittance electron microscopic image of the composite photocatalyst with two components, black phosphorus (BP) and graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4).
Credit: Osaka University
Hydrogen is the most...
HPV jab means women only need 3 cervical screens in a lifetime, research suggests
Women who have had the HPV vaccine can still be effectively protected from cervical cancer with fewer screens, suggests new research.
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Cell discovery brings blood disorder cure closer
Blood cells (stock illustration). "HSCs are one of the best therapeutic tools at our disposal because they can make any blood cell in the...
Understanding the Berlin patient’s unexpected cure of HIV
Research associate Jason Reed performs cell culture maintenance in the Sacha lab.
Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graffo
A decade ago, the medical world was shocked when a patient...
Site of asteroid impact changed the history of life
Mass extinction only occurred when the asteroid having 9-km diameter hit the orange areas.Credit: Kunio Kaiho
An asteroid, also known as the Chicxulub Impactor, hit...
Forgotten fossil indicates earlier origin of teeth
This is a virtual section through the tooth plate of Romundina stellina, with colors gold through purple indicating the first up to the final...
Early fossil fish from China shows where our jaws came from
Life reconstruction of Qilinyu along with Guiyu and Entelognathus in Silurian waters.
Credit: Dinghua Yang
Where did our jaws come from? The question is more complicated...
Porpoises on European coasts maintain their populations but migrate southwards
Harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena.
Credit: © Colette / Fotolia
Seven oceanographic research vessels and three light aircraft from the SCANSII Project have recorded the abundance and...
Extinct California porpoise had a unique underbite
Skimmer porpoise reconstruction. Scientists have identified a new species of ancient porpoise with a chin length unprecedented among known mammals, and suggest the animal...
