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Phys.org / Tiny reconfigurable robots can help manage carbon dioxide levels in confined spaces
Vehicles and buildings designed to enable survival in extreme environments, such as spacecraft, submarines and sealed shelters, heavily rely on systems for the management of carbon dioxide (CO2). These are technologies that ...
Tech Xplore / Mirror-image molecules boost organic solar cell performance
Organic solar cells are made from conductive polymers, which makes them cheap, light, and flexible. However, one drawback is that their efficiency lags behind the best silicon devices—but this may soon change—as researchers ...
Phys.org / Group 13 elements: The lucky number for sustainable redox agents?
Researchers from The University of Osaka created a reagent for important building-block molecules with an abundant main-group element, gallium. These early findings show that an organic gallium compound can display transition-metal-like ...
Phys.org / New plastics designed to degrade on demand may help address global waste
Yuwei Gu was hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York when inspiration struck. Plastic bottles littered the trail and more floated on a nearby lake. The jarring sight in such a pristine environment made the Rutgers ...
Medical Xpress / How a gene shapes the architecture of the human brain
Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim and the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate ...
Medical Xpress / US-approved drug to improve quality of life for people with rare condition familial chylomicronemia syndrome
For the first time, a drug to treat adult patients with familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS), a severe and rare condition that leads to extremely high levels of blood fats called triglycerides, has been approved by the ...
Medical Xpress / Environmental pollutants and epigenetics: Uncovering a hidden link to diabetes risk
Diabetes mellitus (DM) continues to be one of the most prevalent and complex metabolic diseases globally, affecting approximately 500 million people. Characterized by elevated blood glucose levels, diabetes results either ...
Medical Xpress / Why important genes 'go quiet' as we get older
The human gut renews itself faster than any other tissue: every few days, new cells are created from specialized stem cells. However, as we get older, epigenetic changes build up in these stem cells. These are chemical markers ...
Tech Xplore / Humans and AI models show similar confusion when reading tricky program code
Researchers from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems have, for the first time, shown that the reactions of humans and large language models (LLMs) to complex or misleading program code significantly ...
Phys.org / Artificial membranes mimic life-like dynamics through catalytic chemical reactions
Using catalytic chemistry, researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have achieved dynamic control of artificial membranes, enabling life-like membrane behavior. The work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical ...
Medical Xpress / Model helps explain how context-dependent behavior occurs
How animals may modify their behavior depending on their context has been modeled mathematically by two RIKEN neuroscientists. Their simple but biologically plausible model could shed light on mental disorders such as autism ...
Phys.org / Radio wave bursts linked to onset of intense auroral storms
A University of Southampton study has revealed an intriguing new clue in the mystery of what triggers periods of very intense, brightly colored activity during displays of both the southern and northern lights.
