Nanopore Technology Could Desalinate Seawater
An ultra-thin sheet of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) could let water molecules pass through tiny nanopores at a high rate while keeping ions and any contaminants. The authors...
Basic Research
Environment
Environmental science, and the organisms and instruments used to study extreme or changing conditions.
15 articles
3D Printing is not Innocuous for Health
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside have discovered that the material in some 3D printed objects is surprisingly harmful to living things. The finding...
3D printing
Drinkable Book Purifies Contaminated Water
In collaboration with a non-profit organization, an American researcher has designed a book with silver-saturated pages to filter contaminated water. The book is a cheap and...
Education
A Deep-Sea Bacterium Against Climate Change
An organism that lives at the bottom of the ocean could help in the fight against climate change. The bacterium, Thiomicrospira crunogena, lives in extremely hot...
Basic Research
Micromotors that Swim and Sequester Carbon Dioxide
Researchers from UC San Diego have developed an innovative tool to fight climate change. In their study, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the team...
Basic Research
Mussel Inspired Tunable Fluorescent Metallic Gels Could Create New Biological Detectors
The ever preoccupied researchers at MIT are reporting a new family of light emitting materials that allow control of the wavelength. Potential uses could include...
Biotechnology
Synthetic Photosynthesis Produces Fuel Liquid from CO2
Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have designed an artificial “plant” that can produce methane thanks to semiconducting nanowires and bacteria. In the synthetic photosynthesis,...
Bioengineering