Engineers pioneer greener and cheaper technique for biofuel production
A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a naturally occurring bacterium, Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum TG57, isolated from waste...
There’s no such thing as oversharing in conservation
Social gadflies in an organization are the new superheroes of conservation, according to a study in this month's Nature Sustainability.
Conservation globally has received a...
Wheat research discovery yields genetic secrets that could shape future crops
A new study has isolated a gene controlling shape and size of spikelets in wheat in a breakthrough which could help breeders deliver yield...
Exotic binary stars
Cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) are white dwarf stars that are accreting from an orbiting, low mass binary companion star. The accretion is facilitated by...
Creating a 2-D platinum magnet
University of Groningen physicists have induced magnetism in platinum with an electric field created by a paramagnetic ionic liquid. As only the surface of...
A different spin on superconductivity—Unusual particle interactions open up new possibilities in exotic materials
When you plug in an appliance or flip on a light switch, electricity seems to flow instantly through wires in the wall. But in...
Hunting for dark matter in the smallest galaxies in the Universe
Astrophysicists from the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh have created a new method to measure the amount of dark matter at...
New cellular insights in bone development
Most of us don't think about our teeth and bones until one aches or breaks. A team of engineers at Washington University in St....
A new class of antibiotics to combat drug resistance
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting...
Scientists discover hybrid swarm in global mega-pest
CSIRO scientists have confirmed the hybridisation of two of the world's major pest species, into a new and improved mega-pest.
One of the pests, the...
Scientists breed bacteria that make tiny high-energy carbon rings
Caltech scientists have created a strain of bacteria that can make small but energy-packed carbon rings that are useful starting materials for creating other...
