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Nanophysics May 21, 2025

An accidentally discovered class of nanostructured materials can passively harvest water from air

A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, collect it in pores and release it ...

Nanomaterials May 19, 2025

High-performance piezoelectric fiber sensor offers real-time landslide detection

A research team led by Dr. Lim Sang-kyu in DGIST's Department of Energy and Environmental Technology has developed a smart fiber sensor that can detect natural disasters such as landslides in real time. The new fiber is based ...

Nanophysics May 16, 2025

Finely-tuned TiOâ‚‚ nanorod arrays enhance solar cell efficiency

A research team led by Prof. Wang Mingtai at the Hefei Institutes of Âé¶¹ÒùÔºical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a finely tuned method for growing titanium dioxide nanorod arrays (TiO2-NA) with controllable ...

Ecology May 14, 2025

How a leaf's symmetry and lobes impact its journey back to the tree

Two physicists from the Technical University of Denmark have found that leaf shape is a determining factor in the distance leaves travel as they fall from their tree. In their paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society ...

Optics & Photonics May 14, 2025

Light is the science of the future: The Africans using it to solve local challenges

Light is all around us, essential for one of our primary senses (sight) as well as life on Earth itself. It underpins many technologies that affect our daily lives, including energy harvesting with solar cells, light-emitting-diode ...

Biotechnology May 13, 2025

Big data for big farming: How 5G and the metaverse are changing agriculture

A review of digital technologies in the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology suggests that integration of mobile, 5G, wireless and the so-called metaverse could be a turning point in global ...

Ecology May 8, 2025

Costly catch: Study reveals the alarming cost of tuna fishing devices on global ocean life

They are large rafts that drift thousands of kilometers across the ocean surface, moving with the currents in an otherwise featureless marine environment. Tracked by satellites, the rudimentary floats—which may also be ...

Plants & Animals May 2, 2025

Logging devastated Victoria's native forests—new research shows 20% have failed to grow back

Following the end of native logging in Victoria on January 1 2024, the state's majestic forests might be expected to regenerate and recover naturally. But our new research shows that's not always the case.

Condensed Matter Apr 25, 2025

An earth-abundant mineral for sustainable spintronics

In 2023, EPFL researchers succeeded in sending and storing data using charge-free magnetic waves called spin waves, rather than traditional electron flows. The team from the Lab of Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Magnonics, ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 15, 2025

How circadian clocks maintain robustness in changing environments

New research has uncovered how a simple circadian clock network demonstrates advanced noise-filtering capabilities, enhancing our understanding of how biological circuits maintain accuracy in dynamic natural environments.

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