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Strength of Stardust: Ateneo researchers uncover how silicon carbide’s structure and resilience make it ideal for high-stress environments in space and technology. Carbon’s Role: The study highlights how precise carbon content in silicon carbide boosts durability, revealing a key balance for tougher materials. Space Tech Applications: This breakthrough on silicon carbide’s properties opens up possibilities […]
A confrontation between stalk-eyed flies. Image by Gerald Wilkinson. Credit: Gerald Wilkinson In stalk-eyed flies, longer eyestalks attract the ladies. Females prefer males with longer eyestalks, and other males are less likely to fight them for access to females. But some males have a copy of the X chromosome which always causes short eyestalks. Scientists […]
Studio Peipei’s glaze reuses dust, eliminating common additives German Studio Peipei produces recycled glaze for ceramics by repurposing sawdust as its primary ingredient. The project addresses waste by transforming up to 40 tons of unused stone dust per month from various production sites into a valuable resource. The ceramics industry typically consumes large amounts […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Think of flood prevention and you might imagine huge concrete dams, levees or the shiny Thames barrier. But some of the most powerful tools for reducing flood risk are far more natural and widely recognizable: woodlands and green spaces. Trees offer much more than beauty and oxygen. Here’s how trees help […]
sensing instrument reinterprets traditional systems Studio Heech’s modular partition system reinterprets the traditional Korean wattle and daub method for contemporary interiors. At the exhibition ‘Room, As It Is’ at Arumjigi in Seoul, Sensing Instrument explores the potential of earth as a sustainable material that does not generate industrial waste in modern architecture. While looking […]
“We’re really firm believers that by contributing to the community and building upon open-source data models, the whole community moves further, faster,” says Larry Zitnick, the lead researcher for the OMat project. Zitnick says the newOMat24 model will top the Matbench Discovery leaderboard, which ranks the best machine-learning models for materials science. Its data set […]
Spotted: The challenge of reducing our dependence on fossil fuels doesn’t stop with energy: plastics account for around 10 per cent of global oil production. Sustainable alternative materials are needed urgently, and although algae shows particular promise, its potential hasn’t been fully realised due to challenges with scale and cost. Enter Algenie. The company has […]
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The phosphorylation reagent with a nitrobenzyl hydrophobic tag allows production of high purity fully chemically synthesized mRNA and transcriptionally synthesized cyclic mRNA. Credit: Reiko Matsushita In an era where viral outbreaks can escalate into global pandemics with alarming speed, the ability to quickly develop new vaccines has become crucial. However, the speed of vaccine production […]
A preliminary reconstruction shows the late antique church of Artaxata. Credit: University of Münster Archaeologists from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the University of Münster have discovered the remains of a previously unknown early Christian church in the ancient city of Artaxata. The find consists of an octagonal building with cruciform extensions. […]