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Making music with spiders webs and talking arachnid: discover more at ACS Spring 2021
Added: 12 Apr 2021
Imagine being able to talk to spiders in their own language! Scientists report that they have trans…

Expansion microscopy: Imaging biological samples at nanoscale using an ordinary light microscope
Added: 9 Apr 2021
Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological s…

Recycled graphene from tires can make more environmentally friendly concrete
Added: 8 Apr 2021
This could be where the rubber truly hits the road. Rice University scientists have optimised a pro…

Advancing our understanding of life's design rules: seven genes tame simple synthetic cell division
Added: 6 Apr 2021
Recent results in cellular engineering bring us one step closer to understanding the fundamental de…

Research points to a green energy system sooner than we'd hoped!
Added: 1 Apr 2021
Research shows solar photovotaics are already cheaper, more innovative, and more integrated into th…

Meta analysis confirms comorbidity increases risk for COVID patients
Added: 31 Mar 2021
New research shows how comorbidities increase risks for COVID patients following a review of more t…

Jordan's water crisis should be a warning for the world
Added: 31 Mar 2021
It is very easy to take tap water for granted. But sobering predictions of recent research around J…

Industrialisation of fundamental physics research advances light source and sensor technologies
Added: 29 Mar 2021
Collaboration between specialist academic research and industrial expert engineers is proving key t…

CERN results may violate the standard model of particle physics
Added: 23 Mar 2021
New results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, beauty (LHCb) strengthen hints of a violation of lep…

Positive 'tipping points' offer hope for climate
Added: 22 Mar 2021
Climate change mitigation is forever a balancing act. Environmental experts are beginning to unveil…

Machine learning plus vital signs provides objective patient pain levels
Added: 18 Mar 2021
Describing pain from zero to ten is currently as good as it gets on the hospital floor when it come…

'Team ice' uncover crucial information to aid the development of new more active cryoprotectants
Added: 17 Mar 2021
Researchers uncover new understanding around the interactions between synthetic polymers and ice fo…

Tracking mosquito flight patterns in 3D using digital holography and mathematics
Added: 12 Mar 2021
Researchers have been asked to use large field-of-view digital holography to accurately apply 3D tr…

The chronicles of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance continued - the first test drives
Added: 12 Mar 2021
During it's first week on the planet's surface, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and its Earthbo…

Bringing DNA sequencing to the frontlines in the fight against anti-microbial resistance
Added: 10 Mar 2021
The future may see DNA sequencing as a routine bacterial diagnostic technique in hospitals and clin…

Crowd research recovers biodiversity as 17 previously lost plant species are rehabilitated
Added: 9 Mar 2021
Imagine rediscovering not one, but seventeen species that had been designated as extinct? A well or…

Towards 'Zero Leprosy' - model shows 40 million people need preventive treatment
Added: 5 Mar 2021
As the world considers strategies towards 'Zero COVID', research specialists also continue to work …

A novel light harvesting engine strings buckyballs and chromophores on DNA
Added: 26 Feb 2021
Researchers have synthesised a novel type of organic light-harvesting supramolecule by arranging fl…

Ultra-high definition predictive brain tool to guide surgery in drug-resistant epilepsy patients
Added: 25 Feb 2021
A third of epilepsy cases are drug resistant and removal of the area of the brain where seizures em…

The chronicles of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance
Added: 24 Feb 2021
Only a few days in and NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is wowing us with spectacular footage, f…