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Bio & Medicine Jul 9, 2025

Novel nanostructures in blue sharks reveal their remarkable potential for dynamic color-change

New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces their iconic blue coloration, but intriguingly, also suggests a potential capacity for color change.

Bio & Medicine Jul 9, 2025

Need a new 3D material? Build it with DNA

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual element combining to become, for 40 years, the world's tallest building. Uptown at Columbia, Oleg ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 8, 2025

Targeting MXenes for sustainable ammonia production

In a hunt for more sustainable technologies, researchers are looking further into enabling two-dimensional materials in renewable energy that could lead to sustainable production of chemicals such as ammonia, which is used ...

Agriculture Jul 7, 2025

Reusing sunflower seed flour can make bread more protein-packed and rich in antioxidants

The growing demand for healthy alternatives to traditional wheat products has boosted the search for new functional ingredients. In this context, partially defatted sunflower seed flour (SF)—a by-product of industrial sunflower ...

Earth Sciences Jul 7, 2025

The oldest rocks on Earth are more than 4 billion years old

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely characterized the planet at the ...

Environment Jul 7, 2025

Transport and mass budget of biodegradable microplastics in the Seto Inland Sea

Microplastics (MPs) pollution is a prevalent environmental problem that affects ecosystems globally. Despite the growing research on the environmental effects of MPs, a significant research gap remains in understanding the ...

Materials Science Jul 4, 2025

Study uses machine learning to map pH-dependent performance of tin catalysts

Some of the most encouraging results for reaction-enhancing catalysts come from one material in particular: tin (Sn). While Sn's overall utility as a catalyst is well-known, its underlying structure-performance relationship ...

Condensed Matter Jul 3, 2025

TaIrTeâ‚„ photodetectors show promise for highly sensitive room-temperature THz sensing

Terahertz radiation (THz), electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging between 0.1 and 10 THz, could be leveraged to develop various new technologies, including imaging and communication systems. So far, however, a ...

Environment Jul 2, 2025

We don't know what happens to the waste we recycle, and that's a problem

There is a glaring lack of tracking for global recycling. Poor waste management is deeply connected to climate change, plastic pollution and global nutrient imbalances globally.

Condensed Matter Jul 2, 2025

Strong magnetic fields flip angular momentum dynamics in magnetovortical matter

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it encompasses both the intrinsic spin of particles and their orbital motion around a point. These ...

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