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Environment
Research is underestimated by the biocher carbon storage capacity by the evaluation method of outdated.
Credit: IQBAL FAROOZ of Pexels Bi Chart, a charcoal material derived from plant biomass, has long been welcomed as a promising tool for removing carbon dioxide. However, new research by researchers at Stanford University emphasizes serious problems. The current method for evaluating the potential of carbon storage of bi -charcoal may significantly underestimate its true environmental advantages. This paper, published…
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Other Sciences
Research team develops more comprehensive method to monitor lobster industry
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Maine’s lobster fishery supports thousands of jobs across the state and is extensively monitored. Management efforts are informed by biological monitoring surveys that observe changes in lobster abundance and distribution, as well as dealer and harvester reports from the industry. But these statistics do not tell the whole story of an industry reeling from supply, market…
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Nanotechnology
New perovskite growth method enables ultra-high resolution micro-LED displays
Remotely epitaxial crystalline perovskites for ultra-high resolution micro-LED displays. Credit: Professor Wu Yuchen’s group Microscale light-emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) are emerging as the next generation display technology for optical communications, augmented and virtual reality, and wearable devices. Metal halide perovskites show great potential for efficient light emission, long-range carrier transport, and scalable fabrication, and could be ideal candidates for bright LED…
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Chemistry
Researchers propose new method to elucidate PFOS-induced neurotoxicity
Credit: Journal of Hazardous Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136712 The term “omics” refers to the study of the entire molecular mechanisms that occur inside living organisms. The advent of omics technologies such as transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics has improved our understanding of the molecular pathways of toxic environmental pollutants. However, most ecotoxicology studies still rely on single-omics analyses, leaving gaps…
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Chemistry
Environmentally friendly chlorine method could revolutionize pharmaceutical and chemical production
Gram-scale synthesis and mechanistic studies. Credit: Nature Synthesis (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00698-z Chlorine plays an essential role in everyday life, from keeping pools clean to preserving food. Now, a team of Rice University chemists has developed a more environmentally friendly way to incorporate chlorine into the chemical building blocks of pharmaceuticals, plastics, pesticides, and other essential products while reducing costs. The…
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Biology
Introducing HORNET, a new RNA structure visualization method that correlates sequence and 3D topology
AFM images and initial models of BM3, BM4, and BM5. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07559-x Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have developed a method called HORNET to characterize the 3D topological structure of large, flexible RNA molecules. The scientists used atomic force microscopy (AFM) with deep neural networks and unsupervised machine learning to capture individual conformers under physiological conditions.…
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Earth
New method estimates translatitudinal Atlantic freshwater transport
Freshwater transport is related to the stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Credit: Zheng Huayi Researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xiamen University have developed an indirect method to estimate Atlantic meridional freshwater transport (AMFT) at different latitudes. The study was published in Geophysical Research Letters. The oceans, which contain 97% of Earth’s…
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Nanotechnology
Image processing method to enhance visualization of electron microscope images of rubber materials
Provided by: University of Tsukuba Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed a new imaging method to clearly visualize nanoscale structures within rubber materials. The research is published in the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials. Traditional electron microscopy often produces noisy images that obscure the internal contours of the rubber. The proposed method succeeded in capturing the reticular molecular…
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Physics
Lattice QCD method suggests simpler spectra of exotic XYZ hadrons
This diagram shows the contours of a complex energy surface. Each color corresponds to a different pair of D mesons. Although their shapes are very different, they revolve around a common vertex. This means that there is a single resonance coupled to all three channels. Credit: Jefferson Lab Illustration/David Wilson The elusive particles that first formed in the hot, dense…
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Chemistry
Chemists develop metal-free method to selectively convert symmetric diols into one of two enantiomers
Internal view of the photoreactor setup in operation. Credit: Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adq8029 A team of chemists at the University of Cambridge has developed a metal-free method to selectively convert symmetric diols into one of their two enantiomers. In a paper published in the journal Science, the research group exploits the ability of the chiral form of quinuclidine (quinuclidine is…
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