1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (75+ words) A new comprehensive review published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research surveys one of the most quietly promising corners of nanomedicine: carbon dots, nanoscale specks of carbon that are showing remarkable ability to kill bacteria and dismantle the sticky biofilms…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (80+ words) A team of researchers at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad has shown that an ordinary kitchen staple, corn starch, can be transformed into a surprisingly capable solid electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries when it is combined with the right additives. In work…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (617+ words) A team of materials scientists has shown that ordinary green tea can do far more than steep a soothing drink: its polyphenol-rich extract can grow phase-pure nickel oxide nanoparticles that, when embedded in a biodegradable chitosan matrix, transform a humble…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (73+ words) A humble byproduct of bioethanol fermentation, long relegated to low-value disposal, could soon find itself blended into the world’s fuel tanks. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have shown that fusel oil, the mixture of higher alcohols that distillers skim…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (605+ words) A team of researchers in Saudi Arabia has developed a family of multiphase nanocomposites that can pull one of the most stubborn textile dyes out of contaminated water with remarkable efficiency. Writing in the Journal of the Saudi Chemical Society,…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (83+ words) Bitterness is often dismissed as a nuisance of the dinner plate, the flavor note that makes children push away Brussels sprouts and coffee drinkers reach for sugar. Yet for evolutionary biologists and physiologists, the ability to detect bitter compounds is…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (81+ words) Scientists in India have engineered a biodegradable hydrogel bead that carries a drought-tolerant bacterial consortium straight into the root zone of cowpea plants, and the results are striking. In pot trials described in the journal Discover Plants, the formulation nearly…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (537+ words) A humble transition-metal oxide, grown in a laboratory autoclave and shaped by nothing more exotic than temperature, has delivered one of the more striking demonstrations of visible-light water purification reported this year....

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (762+ words) Researchers in Cameroon have shown that a deceptively simple change in a well-known chemistry recipe—how much metakaolin powder is stirred into a fixed volume of sodium hydroxide solution—can dramatically reshape the internal architecture of the silica gel that…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (534+ words) Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of Saskatchewan have engineered a compact, far-red light-responsive protein pair that could redefine how scientists switch molecules on and off inside living cells. The new system, described in Nature Methods, pairs…...