Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c18630 Ice-repellent coatings have been around for some time, but until now they have been very sensitive and detach quite quickly from the surfaces they are meant to protect. A research team led by Anna Maria Coclite and Gabriel Hernández Rodríguez from the Institute of … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A noticeable change filled the air last summer—an actual change in air quality. Wildfires in Canada produced smoke-filled skies and wood-burnt, chemically scented air. National media showed images of orange-tinged skies in New York City and other urban areas. Unhealthy air quality plagued much of the United States during our hottest … Read more
Direct observation of antiferromagnetic merons and antimerons Credit: Mona Bhukta / JGU The electronic devices we use on a day-to-day basis are powered by electrical currents. This is the case with our living room lights, washing machines, and televisions, to name but a few examples. Data processing in computers also relies on information provided by … Read more
Image of a ‘water-wave skyrmion’ (i.e., a structure where the water-surface particles of certain area are displaced in all possible directions, mapped onto the sphere of directions) in the interference of three plane water waves with the same frequency and amplitude but different propagation directions. Credit: Smirnova et al Topological wave structures are wave patterns … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed a “self-driving” lab that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems to provide in-depth analyses of catalytic reactions used in chemical research and manufacturing. The new tool, called Fast-Cat, can provide more information in five days than is possible in six months of conventional testing. The research paper, … Read more
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flies carrying a payload of 22 Starlink satellites into space. Argentina on Monday gave authorization for the deployment of Starlink, the satellite internet service of Elon Musk—a fan of the South American country’s self-styled new “anarcho-capitalist” President Javier Milei. In a decision published in the government gazette, Argentina’s Enacom communications … Read more
The small town of Ecaussinnes is home to Belgium’s second largest petrochemical complex, and microplastic pollution has been a problem here for decades. Buried in the soil, dotting riverbanks and bobbing along streams: a small Belgian town has waged a years-long fight against creeping pollution from plastic pellets—which the EU now has in its sights. … Read more
Ph.D. student Lee-Lun Lai loads a tray into a 3D microprinter to demonstrate how polymer transistors can be made faster, cheaper and more sustainably. Credit: David Callahan-KTH Royal Institute of Technology The speed of innovation in bioelectronics and critical sensors gets a new boost with the unveiling of a simple, time-saving technique for the fast … Read more
Average hazard of infection of intestinal (a, c, e) and stomach (b, d, f) helminths in the historical period (1981–2000, a, b) and expected percentage changes in the short-term (2041–2060, c, d) and in the long-term (2081–2100, e, f) under the RCP 4.5 climate change scenario. Horizontal lines separate northern, central and southern European zones. … Read more
The new molecules, inspired by the design of the space shuttle’s twin booster rockets, improve the efficacy of lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery while simplying their manufacture. Credit: Mitchell Lab Inspired by the design of space shuttles, Penn Engineering researchers have invented a new way to synthesize a key component of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the … Read more
